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Launching Conversations that Count
Together Equal has launched a new range of conversation cards targeting families, with profits from every pack sold going straight to small, independent charities working towards equality on a grassroots level..
Research demonstrates the power of conversations with this OECD study identifying the positive impact of conversation between parents and kids. Using this as a starting point Together Equal have created a fun, engaging game that can be played at home or on the go. Developed for families with kids age 7-11 the cards cover a variety of topics, some fun, some thought provoking and some touching on societal gender stereotypes.
The initiative is designed to give small, independent UK charities something they can sell directly through their networks and charity shops. The charity returns the cost price of the cards to Together Equal so more units can be produced, whilst retaining the full profits of whatever they’ve sold.
The programme launches this year with 3 charities signed up - The Dash Charity in Berkshire, Mums in Need in Sheffield and Wight Dash in the Isle of Wight.
‘Together Equal is a fantastic initiative which The Dash Charity is proud to be part of. Local, grassroots charities delivering vital community interventions, such as ours, are increasingly at risk due to funding cuts. These Conversation Cards are the first step to us exploring and developing new opportunities to sustain our work, alongside instigating important dialogues which need to be brought into the open’ Says Becky Spiller, Head of Sustainability at the Dash Charity.
Co-founder Sarah Aird-Mash says: “Women’s rights are top of the social agenda right now. We want to channel this groundswell of support into a practical model – while driving social change at the most fundamental level.”
The goal is to raise £10,000 from the sale of these cards in the first year which will go straight to their three charity partners. Together Equal aim to have launched a second set of cards focusing on a new subject and have signed up a further 8 charity partners by 2020.
About Together Equal:
Together Equal is a not for profit organisation which works with a number of charities who support victims of abuse. Together, we developed this range of questions which really are fun (my kids play this all the time) whilst being designed to talk down the invisible boundaries surrounding gender expectations.
We’re working with a number of small, independent, UK charities who advocate for victims of violence, run refuges and all manner of outreach programmes. The Dash Charity in Berkshire is using these cards as part of their school outreach, Maidenhead council are looking at distributing these via social workers and Mums in Need and Wight Dash are selling these in their own charity shops.
All of the money we make from these cards - eg the difference between the production cost and the trade price - goes directly to the charities, it's a great way of getting people talking about equality but more importantly it’s giving charities a vehicle to raise money in a sustainable way.
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The Loop Fantasy Football Update: Last-minute…
The Loop Fantasy Football Update: Last-minute moves
Minnesota wide receiver Stefon Diggs (14) says a little prayer after scoring a 30 touchdown against Green Bay in the second quarter of an NFL game at U.S. Bank Stadium on Sunday, Nov. 25, 2018. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
By Kevin Cusick | kcusick@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: December 9, 2018 at 10:44 am | UPDATED: December 9, 2018 at 11:00 am
UPDATE: 10:44 a.m. Sunday
Dicey fantasy news could be good news for the Vikings on Monday night. Seattle’s Doug Baldwin is said to be a game-time decision because of an injured hip. We’d probably look elsewhere than adopt the wait-and-hope approach, especially considering he has only scored two touchdowns this season.
The NFL Network is reporting that our deep sleeper of the week, Pittsburgh’s Jaylen Samuels, will get the bulk of the carries this week, and that James Conner is a possible scratch for the next couple of weeks.
Indianapolis wide receiver T.Y. Hilton has been cleared to play, and Andrew Luck will need all the help he can get against Houston. Also set to appear today are Falcons WR Julio Jones, Jets RB Isaiah Crowell, Dolphins WR Danny Amendola, and WR Josh Doctson.
This morning’s scratches include Ravens quarterback Joe Flacco, Houston WR Keke Coutee and RB D’Onta Foreman, Bucs WR DeSean Jackson and two Chiefs newcomers, RB Charcandrick West and WR Kelvin Benjamin.
UPDATE: 1:30 p.m. Saturday
The Vikings posted some good news this afternoon. Star receiver Stefon Diggs has been cleared to play in their pivotal Monday night game in Seattle. He’s been having issues with his left knee for a couple of weeks now, and it swelled up overnight before last week’s game in New England. But he’s off the team’s injury report now.
The news is not as good if you’re counting on the Giants’ all-pro receiver, Odell Beckham Jr. He has been ruled out of Sunday’s game against Washington because of an injured quadriceps. This means Saquon Barkley will get even more touches against the reeling Redskins.
Also ruled out for Week 14 today are Tampa Bay WR DeSean Jackson and San Francisco wideout Pierre Garcon.
Cleared to play this week are Indianapolis TE Eric Ebron, Packers TE Jimmy Graham and WR Randall Cobb, and New Orleans WR Michael Thomas.
ORIGINAL POST: 8:30 p.m. Friday
It’s crunch time in the fantasy football world. You’re either beginning playoff competition this week, or you’re in your regular season finale, desperately trying to improve your playoff position.
There are a few certainties in the coming crucial weeks. Some top stars (Patrick Mahomes, Drew Brees, Todd Gurley, Saquon Barkley) will continue to produce MVP numbers. Others (Kareem Hunt, A.J. Green, Cooper Kupp, Greg Olsen) will be watching from the sidelines.
The key to playoff success is often finding players with weak opponents in Weeks 14-16. There’s nothing like a cupcake to help a star player taste success again, or a lesser player to play like a star. Here are some potential playoff winners:
Case Keenum (Broncos QB) — Vikings fans might still remember their 2017 savior fondly. He hasn’t had a bad season in Denver (nearly 3,000 passing yards and 14 TD throws), and he hasn’t thrown an interception in over a month. Now he’s facing the lowly 49ers, Browns and Raiders over the next three weeks.
Cam Newton (Panthers RB) — Carolina is skidding, having lost four in a row to nearly destroy its playoff hopes. But Newton has been solid, accounting for 28 touchdowns. The next three defenses he faces (Browns, Saints, Falcons) are very beatable. Newton’s frustration may also lead him to start keeping the ball again at the goal line. Vulture TDs ahead?
Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton (1) slips a tackle by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers defense during the first half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Jason Behnken)
Christian McCaffrey (Panthers RB) — The Panthers’ woes cannot be blamed on the star sophomore, who has 11 touchdowns and 1,526 yards of total offense. He’ll find Carolina’s next three foes to his liking, even if Ron Rivera’s team cannot save its season.
Carolina Panthers running back Christian McCaffrey (22) gets around Tampa Bay Buccaneers free safety Isaiah Johnson (39) on a run during the second half of an NFL football game Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018, in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Jason Behnken)
Ezekiel Elliott (Cowboys RB) — He’s averaging nearly 120 yards a game since Amari Cooper arrived to save Dallas’ offense. And he’ll run for more the next three weeks against the Eagles, Colts and Buccaneers. The only question is whether Dak Prescott hogs more of his goal-line opportunities for himself.
Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott (21) celebrates his touchdown against the New Orleans Saints with quarterback Dak Prescott (4) in the first half of an NFL football game, in Arlington, Texas, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Michael Ainsworth)
Julio Jones (Falcons WR) — He has nearly 200 more yards receiving than anyone else in football. He has touchdowns in three of his past five games, and he has some bad defenses on the horizon. The Packers, Cardinals and Panthers will give Jones a chance to pad his stats in an otherwise forgettable season.
FILE – In this Sept. 23, 2018, file photo, Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones (11) runs against the New Orleans Saints during the second half of an NFL football game, in Atlanta. The Falcons play at the Saints on Thursday, Nov. 22. (AP Photo/David Goldman, FIle)
Kyle Rudolph (Vikings TE) — He’s been awfully quiet this season. No touchdowns since Week 3. Only three games topping 50 yards. So, he’s more than overdue. The Vikings’ next three foes (Seahawks, Dolphins, Lions) lack strong defenses, and Stefon Diggs is still a little dinged up.
Vikings tight end Kyle Rudolph, right, celebrates with teammate Rhett Ellison after catching a 4-yard touchdown pass during the first half against the Carolina Panthers, Sunday, Nov. 30, 2014, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)
SITTING STARS
The Vikings’ offense has been struggling, particularly on the ground. That will continue Sunday in Seattle, so don’t count on much from either Dalvin Cook or Latavius Murray. … The Vikings’ run defense has been good this year, and Seattle has been spreading the running work around. That’s two good reasons to keep Chris Carson on the bench. … As we predicted last week, Cincinnati’s Joe Mixon was able to do little against Denver. Ditto this week against the Chargers. … Outside of his 90-yard gallop, Washington’s Adrian Peterson managed only a yard per carry against Philadelphia. He’ll have similar trouble against the Giants for the decimated Redskins. …. And Andrew Luck’s hot streak ended abruptly against the Jaguars last week. He’s a candidate to remain cold against the AFC South-dominating Texans.
Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck (12) scrambles away from Jacksonville Jaguars defensive end Yannick Ngakoue, right, during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018, in Jacksonville, Fla. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
MATCHUP GAME
The Steelers need a big game from QB Ben Roethlisberger this week, and they will get it against the feeble Raiders. … The Chargers do not need a similar game from Philip Rivers against Cincinnati, but they’ll get it … The Redskins are a mess on offense, so the Giants will have numerous short fields on Sunday. Saquon Barkley, Odell Beckham Jr. and even Eli Manning will see a spike in their numbers. … If Lamar Jackson starts again for Baltimore, and he likely will, then throw him into your lineup against the Chiefs’ supple defense. … Others who will post bigger than usual numbers are Patriots RB Sony Michel vs. the Dolphins, Saints WR Michael Thomas vs. Tampa Bay and Dallas QB Dak Prescott in their showdown against the Eagles.
New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham makes a catch while working out prior to an NFL football game against the Chicago Bears, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018, in East Rutherford, N.J. (AP Photo/Bill Kostroun)
INJURY WATCH
There is a bumper crop of fantasy notables who will miss Week 14: Steelers RB James Conner, Chargers RB Melvin Gordon, 49ers RB Greg Breida, Chiefs WR Sammy Watkins, Buccaneers WR DeSean Jackson, Cardinals WR Christian Kirk. Even one prominent kicker, Carolina’s Graham Gano, is out this week. … Bears QB Mitchell Trubisky is slated to return for the first time since their victory over the Vikings. … Colts WR T.Y. Hilton is listed as a game-time decision. … Players listed as questionable include Lions QB Matthew Stafford and RB Kerryon Johnson, Seattle RB Chris Carson, Houston WRs DeAndre Hopkins and Keke Coutee, Miami WR Danny Amendola, Vikings WR Stefon Diggs, Lions WR Kenny Golladay and two top tight ends, New England’s Rob Gronkowski and Indy’s Eric Ebron.
Pittsburgh Steelers running back James Conner (30) is injured after being tackled by Los Angeles Chargers defensive back Adrian Phillips in the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
THE DEEPEST SLEEPER
Pittsburgh third-string running back Jaylen Samuels has seen scant duty this season. But the rookie from North Carolina State is the Steelers’ new No. 1 thanks to the ankle injury to Le’Veon Bell’s former understudy James Conner. He’ll be out this week, and maybe longer if it’s a high ankle sprain. Samuels caught a touchdown pass in relief last week against the Chargers, and he’ll have plenty of opportunity to show the skills that got him nearly 3,000 yards and 47 TDs with the Wolfpack.
Pittsburgh Steelers running back Jaylen Samuels (38) beats Los Angeles Chargers strong safety Jahleel Addae (37) to the end zone for a touchdown in the second half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 2, 2018, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)
We’ll be updating our column, based on the latest injuries and innuendo, right up until Sunday’s kickoff. Go to TwinCities.com/theloop.
You can hear Kevin Cusick on Wednesdays on Bob Sansevere’s “BS Show” podcast on iTunes. You can follow Kevin on Twitter — @theloopnow. He can be reached at kcusick@pioneerpress.com.
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Mr. Cusick, as he is called by his friends, has been a Pioneer Press staffer since latter days of Reagan administration (March 1987). Born on the mean streets of Brooklyn, raised on the mean streets of the Iron Range, educated on the mean streets of Northwestern's campus and now living on the mean streets of Woodbury. Responsible for nearly all Loop commentary and NFL picks in the Pioneer Press since 2003. One-time sports radio fantasy football guru. Occasional sidekick on Bob Sansevere's award-winning podcast. Alumnus of Little Flower School (East Flatbush, NY), Roosevelt High School (Virginia, MN), Huntington (WV) Herald-Dispatch and Greenville (SC) News. Proud member of the Bald Brotherhood.
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Punishment for lashes?
IsaahM
I know there's no right or wrong answer to most of the questions that are posted here, but it's nice to get opinions.
What if someone has committed fornication, zina before marriage that is, and then they repent for what they've done. It sometimes doesn't feel like it's enough, because the level of sin is horrible to recollect and it's hard to forget what you've done and the number of people you've done it with. The punishment is 100 lashes for zina. If the guilt is too much to bear, should a person seek out the physical punishment in order to feel cleansed of the sins? If yes, is it even possible in the 21st century for a person to be able to seek out such a punishment?
Musbah
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No there is no point hurting yourself for past sins. Unfortunately, we don't live under shariah where the khilafah or his governor would implement the hudud for fornication. Make tawbah to Allah and never do it again and don't dwell on it.
"When a man sees the road as long he weakens in his walk." Ibn Qayyim
Jazakallah for the response brother. I definitely don't mean to involve myself in self-harm, that's another sin best left in the past. I was thinking something like travelling to a place where shariah law is implemented and facing punishment there. I would rather face the physical punishment here in this life than have the doubt that I may be punished in Akhirah or Allah may be displeased with me.... :/
its just sad .. when i see such posts because so many people have done this evil .. its not you who are hated in Islam - its the act .. so please dont ruin your life any further and try to do TAUBA . .
Originally posted by IsaahM View Post
idk.. i think you should keep doing TAUBA .. to protect you from punishment .. INSHALLAH ALLAH SWT WILL SAVE YOU
I dont think forgiveness lies in the punishment, it lies in you asking for forgiveness. And surely Allah will forgive you if you ask Him.
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Saif-Uddin
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100 lashes are for Fornicators, for Adulterers its stoning to death.
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"It does not befit the lion to answer the dogs."
– Imam al-Shafi’i (Rahimahullah)
Originally posted by Saif-Uddin View Post
Thank you for your reply, but it's obvious that that information is already known. Anyhow the information you gave was not even requested, so......
You posted the Punishment for Zina is 100 lashes, Zina includes both, posted it for your information in case you didn't know.
I don't see why you have to behave like an arrogant little kid.
Because you behave like an arrogant father, full of pride and self-righteousness. Your kids must detest you. Don't be confused why they do, use your "common sense"
Read the first line genius, I specified that I was talking about fornication in zina. Cant you see the words in the first line, the first sentence? Is your "common sense" so bad that it's affecting your memory? cant remember the first line by the time you reach the last line? Sigh. You're getting too old Raziel
muslimgirl13
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ik im weeks late, but i came across this post and it made me sad. OP, its quite obvious you really regret what you did. please dont torture yourself further, the physical punishment is not a necessity if your tawbah is so sincere which i can tell you already feel badly for. best of luck and make sure not to expose yourslef
Ya'sin
Have you thought about making an intention to go umrah or Hajj? Even if you are not financially ready, always have a sincere intention because that can make anything possible.
It could help you to feel purified and put the past behind by starting fresh and making sure you never go back to those sins.
It's always a good thing to feel regret for our sins, it acts as a reminder so that we continue asking Allah for mercy and forgiveness.
Focus on all the positive things you can do instead of distracting yourself on the past.
Be humble, kind, be good to everyone whatever they're age, give charity etc. Do everything that pleases Allah subhana wata ala.
Just strive to please Allah the Almighty.
'Whatever it be wherein ye differ, the decision thereof is with Allah: such is Allah my Lord: In Him I trust, and to Him I turn.' The Holy Qu'ran Al Shura (Consultation)
So, which of the favours of your lord will you deny? ~ Surah Ar Rahman
Umm Hamasa
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Allaah says (interpretation of the meaning): “Say: “O ‘Ibaadi (My slaves) who have transgressed against themselves (by committing evil deeds and sins)! Despair not of the Mercy of Allaah, verily, Allaah forgives all sins. Truly, He is Oft-Forgiving, Most Merciful” [al-Zumar 39:53]. And He says (interpretation of the meaning): “… and My Mercy embraces all things…” [al-A’raaf 7:156]
Those who repent, believe and do righteous work. For them Allah will replace their evil deeds with good. And ever is Allah Forgiving and Merciful. [Surah Furqan 25:70)
It was reported from Abu Moosa that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) said: “Allaah spreads out His hand at night to accept the repentance of those who committed sins during the day, and He spreads out His hand during the day to accept the repentance of those who committed sins during the night. (He will continue to do this) until the sun rises from the West.”
Abu Hurayrah said: I heard the Messenger of Allaah (peace and blessings of Allaah be upon him) say: “All of my ummah will be forgiven except those who sin openly. It is a part of sinning openly when a man does something at night, then the following morning when Allaah has concealed his sin, he says, ‘O So and so, I did such and such last night,’ when all night his Lord has concealed him and the next morning he uncovers what Allaah had concealed.”
(Try not to publicize your sins, it is ok because you didn't know and weren't bragging about them but it is better not to reveal them to others)
In Saheeh Muslim it is narrated from Abu Hurayrah (may Allah be pleased with him) that the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Allah has one hundred parts of mercy, of which He sent down one between the jinn, mankind, the animals and the insects, by means of which they are compassionate and merciful to one another, and by means of which wild animals are kind to their offspring. And Allah has kept back ninety-nine parts of mercy with which to be merciful to His slaves of the Day of Resurrection.” (Muslim, al-Tawbah, 6908)
t was narrated that ‘Umar ibn al-Khattab (may Allah be pleased with him) said: “Some prisoners were brought to the Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), and there was a woman among the prisoners who was searching (for her child). When she found her child she embraced him and put him to her breast. The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said to us, ‘Do you think that this woman would throw her child in the fire?’ We said, ‘No, by Allah, not if she is able not to.’ The Messenger of Allah (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said, ‘Allah is more merciful to His slaves than this woman is to her child.’” (Agreed upon)
Anas ibn Malik reported: The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, said, “Allah Almighty said: O son of Adam, if you call upon me and place your hope in me, I will forgive you without hesitation. O son of Adam, if you have sins piling up to the clouds and then ask for my forgiveness, I will forgive you without hesitation. O son of Adam, if you come to me with enough sins to fill the earth and then you meet me without associating anything with me, I will come to you with enough forgiveness to fill the earth.”
Source: Sunan al-Tirmidhī 3540
Grade: Sahih (authentic) according to Al-Albani
Make sincere istighfar (try to cry to Allah), and make a firm resolution that you won't go back to the sin. Haste in good deeds and avoid all that leads to fornication. Not only will Allah forgive you, but he may become so pleased with you that he replaces your evil deed with good deeds as I stated above. Ya'sin offered good advice that Umrah and Hajj will help you feel purified of this sin and other sins you have committed in the past. Never lose hope or despair in Allah's mercy as this is a sin in itself and Allah wants his creation to think well of Him.
Here is istighfar dua/dhikr and it's virtues to help you feel immediately better:
Rasulullah Sallalahu alayhi wa Sallam used to recite :
أستغفرالله ~ Astagfirullah (I seek forgiveness of Allah)
at least 100 times a day.
Hazrat Abdullah bin Abbas
Radiyallahu Anhu narrates that Rasulullah Sallallahu Alayhi Wasallam said: “The one who [regularly] says Istighfaar, Allah Azza Wa-Jal will open a path for him from all difficulties, remove him from all sorrow, and grant him sustenance from unimagined and unexpected sources.” ~
[Abu Dawud]
A person who says :
أَسْتَغْفِرُ اللَّهَ الْعَظِيمَ الَّذِي لاَ إِلَهَ إِلاَّ هُوَ الْحَيُّ الْْقَيُّومُ وَ أَتُوبُ إِلَيْهِ
“Astaghfirullah al-’Azeem al-lazi la ilaha illa Huwal-Hayyul-Qayyum wa atubu ilaih ”
[I seek the forgiveness of Allah the Mighty, Whom there is none worthy of worship except Him, The Living, The Eternal, and I repent unto Him] … even if he has committed sins as much as the the foam of an ocean, still he will be forgiven.
[Abu Dawud- 2:85/ Tirmidhi 5:569
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Cache La Poudre Wilderness
At only 9,484 acres, the Cache La Poudre Wilderness may seem like it does not have much to offer, but it is definitely one of Colorado’s hidden gems. Located in the Roosevelt National Forest, the Cache La Poudre Wilderness was designated as a wilderness area in 1980 and is under the governance of the U.S. Forest Service.
The wilderness was named after the Cache La Poudre River, which flows along the northern boundary of the wilderness. The Little South Fork of the river flows directly into the wilderness, and water from the river has carved a canyon into the bedrock.
It’s Colorado’s only designated Wild and Scenic River Drainage, and the river’s abundance of trout has made fishing the most popular activity in the wilderness.
Human use is low in the Cache La Poudre Wilderness. The harsh terrain along the Cache La Poudre River and the Little South Fork makes hiking a bit of a challenge. The wilderness only features one trail known as the Mount McConnel National Recreation Trail.
Despite this, the wilderness does offer some exciting sights and wildlife. The landscape is adorned with ponderosa and lodgepole pine forests, while bears, coyotes, and mountain lions can be seen occasionally depending on the season.
However, The U.S. Forest Service warns visitors to be careful when visiting Cache La Poudre Wilderness. The wilderness was burned almost entirely in 2012, and floods in 2013 have impacted certain areas of the wilderness and have changed its landscape.
Despite all this, the Cache La Poudre Wilderness is still worth visiting, especially for fishing. It can easily be accessed from the town of Fort Collins. Hikers can reach the Mount McConnel National Recreation Trail by departing from Fort Collins via U.S Highway 287.
Highway 287 through the wilderness. Photo: trover.com
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Cache La Poudre Wilderness. Photo: trover.com
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‘Rogue One: A Star Wars Story’ Teaser Leaked Online
By : Tom Percival On : 07 Mar 2016 14:35
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The first teaser for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has leaked online, according to reports, and teases a dark time before the fall of the Galactic Empire.
The alleged teaser is rumoured to have been recorded on a phone at the Disney’s annual shareholder meeting – although we have our suspicions that this clip may not be from that meeting – and we won’t show the teaser here (boring legal reasons) but we will break down the short minute long clip.
It begins in total darkness, with the muffled sound of the iconic TIE fighter roar echoing around. Slowly, the words ‘December 2016’ fade into sight before fading out, and the camera begins to pull out revealing a lush green planet untouched by the titular wars.
Over this, an old man’s voice, who sounds suspiciously like Sir Alec Guinness, quotes the old Obi-Wan Kenobi line: “For more than a thousand generations the Jedi knights were the guardians of peace and justice, in the old republic before the dark times… before the empire.”
Just as the narrator reads ‘dark times,’ we can see a lone TIE fighter flying towards the imposing Death Star and a slow menacing version of the iconic Imperial March begins to play.
Finally, the screen fades to black and we can hear frantic shouts over a staticky radio before it’s suddenly cut off and the logo fades in.
Allegedly, one person in attendance sent a report to Slash Film on what else he saw while at the shareholders meeting.
Most of it was very quick. A shot of the black stormtrooper, possibly called Death Troopers as previously reported, another pic of that same style of helmet and armor but all chrome, reminiscent of Captain Phasma from The Force Awakens, an image showed two AT-ATs that had a slightly different look with the door panel on the side of the body painted a lighter beige color.
And a couple cast photos were shown, one of Felicity & Diego Luna and another of Donnie Yen. The clip featured Felicity’s character on what looked like the inside of a ship or shuttle with her arm up holding on and the hatch/ramp open behind her. I wish I could remember what she said as part of the sizzle but it went by too fast.
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story tells the story of the brave rebels who stole the plans for the original Death Star, and is due for release on December 16, 2016.
The film is being directed by the wonderful Gareth Edwards, who previously said:
It [the story] comes down to a group of individuals that don’t have magical powers that have to somehow bring hope to the galaxy. It’s about the fact that God’s not coming to save us. The absence of the Jedi hangs over the movie.
The movie will star Felicity Jones, and is the first stand-alone anthology movie, with many more to come, including Han Solo and Boba Fett origin stories.
Let the Star Wars hype begin again!
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More of a concept than a journalist, Tom Percival was forged in the bowels of Salford University from which he emerged grasping a Masters in journalism.
Since then his rise has been described by himself as ‘meteoric’ rising to the esteemed rank of Social Editor at UNILAD as well as working at the BBC, Manchester Evening News, and ITV.
He credits his success to three core techniques, name repetition, personality mirroring, and never breaking off a handshake.
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Top tips to save money on your trip to Cardiff
Now here’s a place that’s easy to fall for. It may not draw the kind of tourist crowds that are second nature to London and Edinburgh, but charismatic Cardiff feels every inch a capital. Wales’ premier city is a confident, upbeat visitor destination, with some grand set-piece heritage sights offset by ranks of shimmering modern developments. You can expect the kind of cultural attractions that befit an international capital, as well as plenty of good dining and nightlife – and at a disarmingly fair price, too.
The main attractions
Visitor attention tends to fall initially on Cardiff Castle, not least because its imposing walled compound still occupies the heart of town. It’s a site with serious history – a Roman fort once stood here – and still contains the opulent house that once belonged to the 2nd Marquess of Bute, the world’s richest man. Buy the Cardiff Visitor Card for a few pounds before your visit – it grants you discounted entry, as well as giving money off tours, restaurants and other attractions.
Cardiff Castle © cardiff_castle
Take time to visit the Cardiff Story, a free-to-enter gallery set in a gorgeous old library building. It gives an overview of the city’s remarkable, coal-powered rise to prominence – once little more than a small market town, it became one of the planet’s biggest shipping ports by the early 1900s.
Not far away, the National Museum Cardiff has a superb collection of artworks – including one of Europe’s best troves of Impressionist paintings – and natural history. It’s free to visit, as is the excellent St Fagans National Museum of History on Cardiff’s outskirts – it plays home to dozens of painstaking, brick-by-brick recreations of Welsh farmhouses, shops, social clubs and more.
Looming over the Cardiff skyline since its 1999 opening is the Principality Stadium – unusual, given its 74,500 capacity, for being so centrally located. It’s primarily a rugby venue, and if you’re in town when the national team are playing at home, you’ll find the whole city centre bubbling with atmosphere. It’s easier (and often cheaper) to get match tickets for the autumn internationals (November/December) than the Six Nations (February/March), but the Cardiff Visitor Card gives money off stadium tours year-round.
Principality Stadium © jermaine.tekawa
Head down to the redeveloped Cardiff Bay to see the city’s modern face. The Wales Millennium Centre is the area’s eye-catching centrepiece and occasionally has free events, but also notable is the Pierhead building, which has high-quality, free-to-visit historical exhibits. Take time too to call in at the free Norwegian Church Arts Centre, where the writer Roald Dahl was baptised (his seafaring father was stationed in Cardiff). And don’t miss the chance to stroll across the bay to Penarth – one of Britain’s great city walks.
Wales Millennium Centre © citizenslide
Free Walking Tours run pay-what-you-feel tours of the city centre and the bay over the summer months. If your idea of an enjoyable walk is one involving retail therapy, meanwhile, take note of the new Cardiff Gift Card, which gives various offers at independent shops, restaurants and more. Lastly, Wales is renowned for its outdoor drama, but if you can’t make it to the mountains, try the well-priced ‘Give it a Go’ taster sessions at Boulders, one of the UK’s biggest and best indoor climbing centres.
Getting there and around
Cardiff Airport has plenty of European and UK connections, but Cardiff is also easy to reach from other major UK cities, including Bristol (50 minutes away by rail) and London (under two hours by rail). Check out Arriva Trains’ tips on how to save money on rail tickets. In town, much of the city centre is pedestrianised, and many of the key sights are within walking distance of each other, but Cardiff Bus has an extensive network and reasonable fares. Near essential for any visitor, meanwhile, is a journey with Cardiff Boat Tours – a few pounds buys you a scenic water-taxi voyage from the city centre to the bay, or vice versa.
Affordable accommodation close to the heart of town includes the ibis budget Cardiff Centre, the Holiday Inn Express Cardiff Bay, the Premier Inn Cardiff City Centre and Travelodge Cardiff Atlantic Wharf. In the summer months, Cardiff Metropolitan University has good value en-suite rooms, while YHA Cardiff Central is one of the smartest hostels in the UK and has numerous private rooms. There’s also a good selection of Airbnb short-term rental properties.
As you’d expect from a city of Cardiff’s stature, it has some great restaurants. You can sample high-quality dining at a reduced price by trying out the set-lunch menus at Park House Restaurant and the seafood-focused Fish at 85. Elsewhere, keep an eye on the online restaurant deals offered by Wriggle Cardiff and – if you’re here over the summer – try to take in the good-value food at Street Food Circus, which pops up for several weeks each year in the city’s Sophia Gardens park. Lastly, don’t miss a trip to the Victorian-era Cardiff Market to pick up some Welsh Cakes…
Cardiff Market © arthur_welrol
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What happens when you actually trick people into meditation?
It’s time to start WEARING your beauty.
5 father-son pairs on the power of vulnerability
“Close your eyes and think of a word that empowers you,” instructs Sah D’Simone, the meditation and transformation coach to the likes of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West.
We’re sitting cross-legged, eyes closed, breathing in and out as Sah takes us on a metaphysical journey into the unknown.
Woo-Sah!
SEE ALSO: It’s time to starting WEARING your beauty
For a Monday night, things are getting spiritually L-I-T. All 150 or so of us are gathered at The Assemblage John Street, a luxurious space centered around interconnectedness and transformation to celebrate the pre-launch of SOON, our beauty bag. To the left is an activation by Erin Claire, Human Design expert who curates programming for the space. In the back corner is Youth To The People, the Los Angeles-based vegan beauty brand with its director of strategy and planning, Jamie Somphanthabansouk, in tow.
(Talk to Her’s Joyce Lee with Soko Glam’s Charlotte Cho at our SOON bag launch party. Photo by Matthew Kelly/ Very Good Light)
Among the colorful crowd are the likes of Nicola Formichetti, renowned stylist and entrepreneur, Charlotte Cho, co-founder of Soko Glam, Minya Quirk, co-founder of Shoppe Object, Phillip Wong, co-founder of Hawthorne, David Lopez, celebrity hairstylist, among others.
They’ve come to support SOON, Very Good Light‘s crossbody beauty bag in collaboration with Talk to Her and Haerfest, which is now officially on presale. SOON comes with travel-sized products that were specially curated for your journey, including: Herbivore’s Rose Hibiscus Coconut Water Hydrating Face Mist; Farmacy’s Coconut Gel Sheet Mask and Honey Butter Beeswax; The Ouai’s Texturizng Hairspray; and Youth To the People’s Superfood Cleanser and cream.
The bag is all about taking that journey and bringing a part of empowerment along wherever you go.
(Hawthorne’s co-founder Phillip Wong with Haerfest co-founder Dan Joo. Photo by Matthew Kelly/Very Good Light)
“For us, bags are your home away from home,” says Dan Joo, co-founder of Haerfest. “It’s about keeping what means most with you.”
Which makes sense for the beauty guru who takes along their products with them.
After nibbling on small bites and downing elixirs, guests sat back down for a panel discussion on social consciousness in startup cultures. David moderated the panel as Joyce Lee, CEO of Talk to Her, Jamie from Youth To The People, and Dan from Haerfest, answered questions on how each company functions in an ever busy world.
(Celebrity hairstylist David Lopez with Very Good Light’s editor in chief, David Yi and editor at large, Garrett Munce. Photo by Matthew Kelly/ Very Good Light)
“It’s about letting go of the ego and embracing love,” says Jamie. Still a burgeoning brand – and one of Sephora’s bestsellers – Youth To The People has seen immense growth. In the past few months alone, the brand has gone from a handful of employees to almost two dozen. Revenue has also grown at a rapid pace, leaving the brand in a really good place, but also one that’s sometimes frenzied. To slow down, Jamie says she sometimes logs off, takes deep breaths and sees the bigger picture. “I feel like sometimes you just have to log off and reflect,” she says.
For Joyce, starting a consultancy after her near-decades experience at Opening Ceremony was because of a desire to merge both her American and Korean experiences. While a one woman show, she’s juggling multiple projects at once, including KARE, an upcoming pop up at Canal Street Market. To keep her sanity, she admits she prays, meditates and takes long runs to clear her mind. “Feeling my body and going back to my humanity allows me to let go,” she says.
(Youth To The People’s Jamie Somphanthabansouk with friends at SOON’s pre-launch party. Photo by Matthew Kelly/ Very Good Light)
It’s something that resonates with David and Very Good Light. Now 2-years old, the brand has gone through its ups and downs, he admits. But it’s the bigger picture and greater good that inspires him to work even harder. “If this was a blog about David Yi, it would have lasted like, 2 weeks,” he says. “But because it’s for creating a safe space for all men from all backgrounds, to create inclusivity and promote self-worth, I have my readers in mind every day. That helps me to keep doing this.”
The inspirational talk concluded with the overarching inspiration of SOON, which is all about the journey, not the destination. “It’s about that thought of getting ‘there,’ wherever that is and knowing that we’ll arrive there one day soon, together.”
To secure your own limited-edition SOON bag, head here! For everyone else, it hits Opening Ceremony stores on 1/25!
All photos by Matthew Kelly
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Psychoanalytic training is the backbone of our work.
Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Institute
EARLY ADMISSION PROGRAM
Since 1993, the Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Institute has been providing full academic courses in psychoanalytic training through its partnerships. The WPI has an arrangement with the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute to support local students via its Early Admission Program (EAP), with courses offered throughout the academic year at the Columbia St. Mary's location in Milwaukee.
There are three components to the Institute’s psychoanalytic training program. This tripartite model consists of:
A. Personal Psychoanalysis
B. Scholarly Study
Post-Seminar Requirements
Graduation Paper
Clinical Case Write Up
C. Supervised Psychoanalytic Clinical Work
The EAP is attractive to those who wish to undertake psychoanalytic training, but are not prepared to begin full training. The program allows graduate students or those in residency training to begin psychoanalytic training early via seminars on Saturday mornings, supervision of psychotherapy cases by psychoanalysts, and personal analyses - all provided at reduced fees if necessary.
EAP Seminars 2018-2019
5 sessions per topic on Saturdays, 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Migration, Exile, and Psychoanalysis - Sep. 8, 15, 22, 29, Oct. 6
Jorgelina Corbatta, PhD
Freud and Beyond: How Theory and Psychoanalytic Practice are Evolving - Oct. 13, 20, 27, Nov. 3, 10
Sally Rosenberg, DO
Nancy Debbink, MD
Unconscious Fantasy - Nov. 17, Dec. 1, 8, 15, Jan. 5
Nancy Kulish, PhD
Lisa Lennihan, LCSW
The Ubiquity of Unconscious Communication - Jan. 12, 19, 26, Feb. 2, 16
Melvin Bornstein, MD
Richard Frank, MD
Jan Van Schaik, MD
Working with Tweens: Implications for Working with Patients in Other Phases of Life - Feb. 23, Mar. 2, 9, 23, 30
Lorrie Chopra, MA
The Continuing Central Importance of Dreams in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis - Apr. 6, 13, 27, May 4, 11
Kehinde Ayeni, MD
Re-telling Our Life Stories: Co-authors of an Analytic Narrative - starts June 1, 2019
Nancy Blieden, PhD
Denise Ambre, LCSW
CLINICAL MOMENTS SEMINARS
Wednesdays, 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.
The Institute also offers monthly Clinical Moments seminars, which are designed for early career psychotherapists; students of mental health; interns and residents who may have an interest in introducing psychoanalytic thinking into their work with patients.
Activities are planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of American Psychoanalytic Association and Wisconsin Psychoanalytic Society. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.
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State Starts Looking At Replacing Last Drawbridge On The Overseas Highway
By Nancy Klingener • Apr 23, 2019
flkeysnews.com
On the Overseas Highway in the Keys, there's only one drawbridge left. And its end may be nearing.
South Florida Mobile Home Parks Face Real Estate Crunch
By Alexander Gonzalez & Tom Hudson • Apr 21, 2019
Danny Rivero / WLRN
In the hunt for housing affordability, mobile home parks have been an oasis. But developers are eyeing them, increasing rents and forcing some residents to leave.
Key West Voters To Decide Whether To Buy Newspaper Building
The Key West city charter says voters have to approve any deal for the city to buy real estate. And Key West voters have a decision to make.
Coral Disease Prompts Unprecedented Rescue Project In South Florida's Waters
By Nancy Klingener • Apr 1, 2019
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Five years ago, a new coral disease was found right off downtown Miami. It has now spread through the Florida reef tract, from Martin County down past Key West. In response, scientists are taking unprecedented measures to make sure some coral survives, at least in captivity.
Residents Worry Bridge Repairs May Cause Future Commuting Nightmare For Key West
By Nancy Klingener • Mar 27, 2019
Anyone who has ever driven to or from Key West has crossed the Cow Key Bridge. It's the only road on or off of the island.
Now the state says the bridge's decks and beams need to be replaced on the two spans (one outgoing, one incoming) that connect Key West with the rest of the world.
Monroe County Leaders Bring Lionfish, Rum Punch And Affordable Housing Concerns To State Legislature
By Jessica Bakeman • Mar 20, 2019
Jessica Bakeman / WLRN News
Hundreds of people enjoyed food, drinks and music from the Florida Keys at the state Capitol on Tuesday evening, the culmination of an annual lobbying trip that Monroe County elected officials and business owners use to share local priorities with state lawmakers.
City mayors, school board members, community college administrators and restauranteurs told legislators throughout the day about their biggest concern: affordable housing.
Keys Governments Still Await FEMA Money 18 Months After Irma
By Nancy Klingener • Mar 5, 2019
Four Keys cities and Monroe County have sent FEMA bills for more than $91 million from Hurricane Irma. A year and a half after the storm, they have received less than 12 percent of the money.
It Takes A Volunteer Village To House Irma Recovery Helpers In The Keys
After Hurricane Irma slammed the Florida Keys in September of 2017, lots of volunteers came to help with clean up. Almost a year and a half later, there's still work to do repairing homes, and volunteers who want to help.
The challenge has been finding them a place to stay.
Boatbnb? Monroe County Says No, Fines Owner $2,500
By Nancy Klingener • Feb 28, 2019
Monroe County Code Compliance
If you look for vacation rentals in the Florida Keys, you may notice a lot of boats offered as lodging. Now Monroe County has brought a code compliance case against one of the owners.
Michael Dewitt says he's put $130,000 into fixing up his 40-foot sportfishing boat, docked behind his house on Little Torch Key.
So when a property manager approached him about renting it as a vacation rental on Airbnb, he agreed.
"It sat behind my house empty, I had a couple of neighbors that were doing the exact same thing - that are still doing the exact same thing," he said.
Cat Bites The Hand That Feeds; Hospital Bills $48,512
By editor • Feb 26, 2019
Compassion for a hungry stray kitten led to a nip on the finger — and also took a bite out of Jeannette Parker's wallet.
In a rural area just outside Florida's Everglades National Park, Parker spotted the cat wandering along the road. It looked skinny and sick, and when Parker, a wildlife biologist, offered up some tuna she had in her car, the cat bit her finger.
"It broke my skin with his teeth," she recalls.
Is There A Limit To Development? Keys Face Prospect Of Buildout
The Florida Keys could be facing a deadline that's unprecedented in South Florida. Four years from now, there might not be any more homes that can be built in the Keys.
The state has a rule that the island chain has to be able to get everyone out 24 hours before a hurricane hits. And there’s just one road out. So there’s a limit to how many people are allowed to live in the Keys.
That means people who live in the Keys — and especially the people who would like to build there in the future — are trying to figure out what to do.
Old Power Plant In Key West Gets New Mission As A Museum and Microbrewery
David Salay / Bender & Associates Architects
The Key West Art and Historical Society already maintains some of the island's most important historic buildings, like the lighthouse and the Custom House. And now the group is taking on another.
Key West Still Struggles To Find Permanent Home For Homeless Shelter
John Teets
Finding an affordable home in the Florida Keys is a real challenge. And so is finding a home for the Key West homeless shelter.
Key West has had a shelter next to the Monroe County jail on Stock Island for more than a decade. It's called KOTS - which stands for Keys Overnight Temporary Shelter. It houses about 150 people in seven temporary structures.
The city agreed to move KOTS, after residents of a condo and marina complex next door sued. And the sheriff wanted the land to build housing for employees.
Key Westers Hope To Lead The State On Greater Sunscreen Action
By Nancy Klingener • Feb 6, 2019
When Key West city commissioners approved a ban on the sale of some sunscreens, some said it wasn't just to protect the reef that has protected the island for centuries.
Commissioner Jimmy Weekley said Key West is leading the continental U.S., and is already receiving global attention for its action.
"Key West, the 3-by-5-mile island, is going to take a major step to help preserve our environment — the environment of every citizen of the world," he said.
Key West Approves Ban On Sale Of Sunscreens Believed To Harm Coral
Key West has become the first place in the mainland U.S. to ban the sale of sunscreens containing two chemicals that have been found in some studies to harm corals.
"There are thousands and thousands of various alternative sunscreens that can be used. But we only have one reef," said Commissioner Jimmy Weekley, one of the sponsors of the ordinance.
It won final approval by a 6-1 vote Tuesday night.
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Editor-at-Large of Breaking Media; Executive Editor of ATL Redline
Elie Mystal (Amy Pearl/WNYC)
Elie Mystal is the Executive Editor of Above the Law “Redline.” He’s written for The New York Times, the New York Daily News, City Hall News, and has appeared on Fox News, MSNBC, CNBC, and CNN. He graduated from Harvard University in 2000, Harvard Law School in 2003, and was an associate at Debevoise and Plimpton.
Elie Mystal appears in the following:
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Join Arun Venugopal, Kayhan Irani, Nore Davis, and Elie Mystal for a re-examination of the ways in which humor and wit allow for a more nuanced understanding of human (racial) affairs.
After Justice Kennedy
WNYC's Jami Floyd and More Perfect's Elie Mystal talk about the resignation of Justice Anthony Kennedy, his impact, and what'll happen in the Senate when a nominee is designated.
After Justice Kennedy: A Call-in Special
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WNYC's Jami Floyd hosts a live call-in special about the retirement of Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, and what to expect from his replacement.
Shades of Love: Color, Parenting and Telling Our Kids the Truth about Race
Join Jami Floyd as she talks to Elie Mystal, Alex Barnett, and Veronica Jordan about how they navigate conversations about race with their partners and multiracial children.
SCOTUS Hears a Challenge to the Travel Ban
"Korematsu 2.0"
The President's Ongoing Legal Issues
Editor-at-large of Above the Law and legal editor for WNYC's podcast More Perfect, Elie Mystal, takes a closer look at President Trump's legal battles.
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Just deserts or a startling brand of online vigilantism?
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Should you be able to say whatever you want online? Join Jad Abumrad and guests for a debate about the First Amendment in the digital age.
Podcast Mixtape: Radiolab Presents More Perfect
Would you give up your home if it could benefit the greater good? Watch video of our debate with Radiolab's Jad Abumrad and More Perfect's Elie Mystal.
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In light of Bill Cosby's upcoming trial, a look into how legal teams choose jurors.
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Join More Perfect legal editor Elie Mystal as he tries to convince us to go against the conventional wisdom in this live WNYC Studios podcast pilot.
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This year's President's Day — more than most — calls for a consideration of what the President can, or cannot, do.
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What could SCOTUS nominee Neil Gorsuch mean for President Trump's executive orders?
Public Forum: Letters From Detention
Explore the Supreme Court case involving hundreds of Muslim, South Asian and Arab men deported after 9/11, in performance and conversation. In association with The Public Theater.
How Senate Republicans Are Crippling the Supreme Court
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New York Times to Donald Trump's Attorney: Bring it On
One legal expert says Trump's threat to sue The Times is "like a whale being threatened with a letter opener."
A Preview of the New Supreme Court Session
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Listen. Unite. Act.
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“I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
~ Maya Angelou
Womxn's March Denver denounces anti-Semitism and the National Women's March leadership team’s failure to clearly disassociate from anti-Semitic public figures. We proudly support our Jewish sisters and brothers. We condemn all language and actions of hate directed at the Jewish community.
Womxn's March Denver is an independent VOLUNTEER grassroots team of local Colorado women. We are not affiliated with the national Women’s March organization. We oppose all forms of oppression and operate from an intersectional lens. We stand in solidarity with all marginalized communities and ask that those communities stand together with us against oppression in all its forms. Thank you.
Intersectionality is not just the word of the day; it is our path forward. We know this because this movement, including the Women’s March, has struggled for so long to build meaningful coalitions. Today, we step into the work.
Today, we know better: because we listened, as a March, as a movement, as a people committed to justice. We listened to the voices of the marginalized, those targeted by sexism, racism, classism, anti-semitism, Islamophobia, heterosexism, cissexism, and more, and we are continuing to build those relationships, internally and externally.
Today we unite: as allies and those directly targeted by oppression, in the global movement for justice, recognition, and healing.
Today, we act: to dismantle oppression in all its forms; we unapologetically commit to making our state, our nation, our world, a safe and equitable place for all.
The Womxn’s March Denver is launching today with the “x” in our name, because we believe in equity and we act with purpose to make space for trans, non-binary, and genderqueer persons in our name. But it is not enough for us to be inclusive in language only. We must all commit to doing the work. We must speak our truths and listen to others speaking theirs. We must commit to anti-oppressive principles and goals, with marginalized persons at the center of our movements. We must act, to dismantle systems that harm, and to create new systems that uplift.
The Womxn’s March is more than just a day, it’s a global movement, a lifetime commitment, and a personal journey. We, the Womxn’s March Denver Leadership Team and community, invite you all to join us this January. Let the work begin.
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Turkey release 5 police in wiretapping case on bail
Six other police officers were released hours before on Friday after being questioned on wiretapping case at the Turkish Prime Minister’s office.
World Bulletin / News Desk
Five police officers questioned in relation to the wiretapping case at the Turkish Prime Minister’s office were released on Friday on judicial bail after appearing in court.
The suspects Ali Ozdogan, Sedat Zavar, Ahmet Turer, Enes Cigci and Ilker Usta were released after appearing before judges at Ankara’s 9th Magistrate Criminal Court.
Meanwhile, on Friday hours before, Erdogan's former chief bodyguard Mehmet Yuksel together with Zeki Bulut, Ibrahim Sari, Hursit Golbası, Harun Yavuz and Seyit Saydam were also released.
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Beit Midrash הלכה מחשבה ומוסר צומח ובעלי חיים
When May I Remove a Tree?
Rabbi Yirmiyohu KaganoffTevet 12 5779
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Question #1: Expansion or Destruction?
A community has been renting a house for their shul. Though the membership has now grown, thank G-d, the building has not and is no longer large enough to accommodate their needs. Their landlord has allowed them to expand the building, even though doing so will require removing a fruit tree. May they expand the shul at the expense of the tree?
Question #2: Shady Mitzvah
We just moved into a new house, and the only place for a sukkah is shaded by fruit trees. May we level the trees in order to build our sukkah?
Question #3: Darkening Peaches
A peach tree that grew on its own is now blocking the light from entering our house. May we cut down the tree?
Question #4: George and the Cherry Tree
If cherry wood prices had spiked, would George Washington* have been permitted to chop down the cherry tree for its valuable lumber?
(*Please note: George Washington did not ask me a shaylah about chopping down the cherry tree. The other shaylos mentioned are all actual cases. With the exception of George, all names have been changed to protect individuals’ privacy. Since George was not Jewish, he was not required to observe this mitzvah.)
In this week’s parsha, the Torah teaches:
When you lay siege to a city for many days to wage war against it in order to capture it, do not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against them, because from them you shall eat, and for this reason you should not cut them down. For, is a tree of the field a man, that you are besieging it? Rather, a tree that you know will not produce food – it you may destroy and cut down, and with it build a battlement against the city that is waging war against you, until you conquer it (Devorim 20:19-20).
The Ramban explains that the Torah is discussing a very specific situation, in which the Jewish army needs to construct an earthwork to attack the enemy city, and has available both trees that are producing fruit and others that are not. The Torah prohibits razing the fruit trees, since one has the option of using only those trees that do not produce fruit. However, should obliterating the fruit trees be helpful militarily, one may destroy them (Ramban Commentary ad loc., and in his notes at the end of Sefer HaMitzvos, "Mitzvas Asei #6 that the Rav omitted").
Use of Fruit Trees in War
Several possible scenarios exist in which razing fruit trees has battlefield benefit, and in all of these situations one may destroy the trees. For example, if there are not enough non-fruit trees available to build the earthwork or when the enemy might use the fruit trees either as cover, for wood or for food; in these cases, one may raze the fruit trees. What the Torah is banning is a scorched-earth policy of destroying everything around the city, simply to wreak devastation (Ramban Commentary, ad loc.).
Peach or Teakwood?
For this reason, some rule that if a non-fruit tree is valuable for use in furniture, one may spare that tree, even though as a result one will need to chop down fruit trees for the fortifications (Shu’t Chasam Sofer, Yoreh Deah #102, quoting Shitah Mekubetzes in the name of the Geonim). Thus, one could raze a fruit tree and use it for building the rampart and spare a teak tree for a commercially beneficial use.
Indirect Destruction
Looking back at the Torah’s verse that I quoted above, I would like to call attention to a redundancy: Do not destroy its trees by wielding an axe against it… you should not cut it down. The Torah appears to be stating the same thing twice. What additional lesson is the Torah teaching by repeating the command?
Some authorities, indeed, explain that there are two different negative commandments here (Baal Halachos Gedolos). The Sifrei explains that, with its seemingly redundant words, the Torah teaches that it is even prohibited to destroy the tree indirectly, such as by blocking its water source (see Lechem Mishneh, Hilchos Melachim 6:8).
In Peace Time
Although the Torah explicitly discusses razing trees in wartime, this prohibition applies equally in peaceful times. While comparing destroying trees to injuring oneself, the Mishnah states: Someone who cuts down his trees, although it is prohibited for him to do so, is not obligated to pay (Bava Kamma 90b). In its commentary on this Mishnah, the Gemara records the following discussion: Rav said: "One may not chop down an aging date palm, as long as it is still carrying a kav-weight of dates…" Ravina noted: "If the tree was worth more for its lumber, one may chop it down" (Bava Kamma 91b). Thus, the Mishnah teaches that one may not level a productive fruit tree, and the Gemara explains that a tree valued for its lumber and not its fruit, either because of the quality of its lumber or because of its age, is no longer considered a "fruit tree" and may be cut down.
Thus, one can explain that the Torah means: Even when you are involved in warfare, and the tendency is to destroy randomly everything in one’s path, keep in mind what fulfills your goal and what does not, and destroy only what is required. Surely, we must build a rampart, but we do not need to destroy productive fruit trees that the enemy cannot use to help him in the battle. However, just as one may destroy a fruit tree in war when there is a tactical reason to do so, one may chop it down in peacetime, when it is no longer productive. In addition to the two cases mentioned above — when it is worth more as wood, or it is not producing enough fruit to make its maintenance worthwhile — the Gemara adds a third example when one may raze a fruit tree: when it is damaging other fruit trees (Bava Kamma 91b- 92a; Rambam, Hilchos Melachim 6:8-9).
Clear for Construction
(1) The Goldbergs purchased a new house, hoping to expand it onto the huge lot that they have that contains several beautiful fruit trees. May they remove the trees to expand their house?
(2) or, the question I asked above: "A peach tree that grew on its own is now blocking the light from entering our house. May we cut down the tree?"
Beneficial Razing
May one raze a fruit tree in order to build on its location? May one raze an aging, but still productive, fruit tree to move new tree saplings to its location? Fruit farmers regularly level areas that are aging and becoming less productive in order to replant a new orchard in their place. Is this halachically permitted?
What we are asking is: Can we expand the three cases where the Gemara permitted destroying a fruit tree to other cases when it is beneficial to remove the tree?
One very early authority, the Rosh (Bava Kamma 8:15) seems to accept this approach, permitting cutting down a fruit tree to create an area on which to build a house. It seems that he understands that the Torah prohibited destroying a fruit tree only when there is no benefit from the destruction, or at least less gain than the tree is worth. Many authorities indeed rule like the Rosh and permit razing a tree when there is some resultant advantage (Taz, Yoreh Deah 115:6; Shu’t Chavos Yair #195; Shu’t Har Tzvi, Orach Chayim 2:102). Other authorities permit this only when the house is worth more than the tree (She’eilas Yaavetz 1:76). Similarly, it would seem to me that, according to these authorities, there is a halachic basis for allowing the approach of farmers to destroy older trees and replace them with new ones.
However, other authorities dispute this conclusion, rallying evidence that other Rishonim prohibit chopping down a viable fruit tree for the sake of construction (Shu’t Beis Yaakov #140, quoted by above-mentioned Har Tzvi; Shu’t Meisheiv Davar 2:56).
A Shady Deal
Let us refer to one of our opening questions: A peach tree that grew on its own is now blocking the light from entering our house. May we cut down the tree?
This actual question was addressed to the Chavos Yair, a great 17th century Central European posek.
Based on the above-quoted Rosh, who permitted cutting down a tree in order to construct a house, the Chavos Yair allowed chopping down the offending peach tree. However, the Chavos Yair rules that this is permitted only when he cannot simply remove some branches to allow the light into his house. When one can simply remove some branches and spare the tree, the Chavos Yair prohibits chopping down the entire tree, since it is unnecessary to do so. Even though the branches will eventually grow back again and block his light, the Chavos Yair does not permit chopping down the tree, but requires one to repeatedly trim it, since it is not necessary to destroy it for the sake of the house. Thus, although he accepts the Rosh’s ruling permitting removing a tree for the sake of a dwelling, the Chavos Yair notes that this is permitted only when one cannot have the house and eat the fruits, too.
Expanding Living Space
The Chavos Yair further rules that the Rosh, who permitted chopping down a tree to have construction done on its place did so only when the construction filled an essential need for the house, and not when it was merely to make the house nicer, such as to widen the yard or to provide a place to relax.
At this point, we can probably answer the Goldbergs’ question. They purchased a new house, hoping to expand it onto the huge lot that they have that contains several beautiful fruit trees. May they remove the trees to expand their house?
Even according to the Rosh, they may remove the trees only to provide something essential for the house. Since the house was already usable, it is prohibited for them to raze the trees. (However, we will soon share with them a possible solution.)
Some are Much Stricter
The Chavos Yair follows the Rosh’s approach and permits removing a fruit tree if there is no other way to build a house. However, not all later authorities are this lenient. When asked this exact question, "May one cut down a tree to construct a house," the Netziv, one of the leading authorities of 19th century Lithuania, was not comfortable with relying on the opinion of the Rosh and permitting it. Rather, he concluded that there are early authorities who disagree with the Rosh and permit razing a fruit tree only in the three situations that the Gemara mentions: when the tree is more valuable as lumber, when it is producing almost no fruit, or when it is affecting the growth of other fruit trees. In the first two instances, it is no longer considered a fruit tree. The Netziv provides two different reasons why, if it is still considered a fruit tree, one cannot remove it, unless it is damaging other trees.
(1) One may chop down the tree only because it is damaging other fruit trees, but for no other reason.
(2) Chopping down a fruit tree is permitted only when removing it provides immediate benefit. However, when one clears a tree to make room for construction, there is no immediate benefit when one clears away the tree. The benefit is not realized until one builds the house, which does not take place until later, and we do not see from the Gemara that this is permitted.
Following this latter approach, it is prohibited to destroy older trees and replace them with new ones, and halachically-abiding farmers must wait until the trees are hardly productive before replacing them with new saplings.
Hazardous to one’s Health
There is another reason to be concerned about chopping down fruit trees. In addition to the Torah’s prohibition, Chazal consider cutting down trees to be dangerous. To quote the Gemara, "Rabbi Chanina stated: My son Shivchas died only as punishment for cutting down a fig tree prematurely" (Bava Kamma 91b). Thus we see that cutting down a fruit tree is not only an issue of bal tashchis, but also a safety concern.
What About for Temporary Use?
A community was renting a house from a non-Jew for their shul. The number of congregants is now, thank G-d, exceeding the capacity of the shul building, and the gentile owner has allowed them to expand the building on which they still have nine more years on their lease. However, there is only one direction in which they can expand their building, and there is a grape vine growing there, which they would need to uproot to perform their expansion. The gentile owner has permitted them to rip up the vine for this purpose. The community’s question is whether expanding the shul is a valid reason to permit ripping up a grape vine, which is halachically considered a fruit tree; particularly since the community’s benefit may be only temporary, since the gentile landlord may not renew their lease, and they may then need to look for new quarters.
The Yaavetz ruled that even the temporary use of a shul is a valid reason permitting the ripping up of the grape vine. However, because of his concern that it is dangerous to do so, he advises hiring a gentile to uproot the vine. Since the mitzvah of destroying fruit trees is not included among the mitzvos that a ben Noach must observe, the gentile is not required to observe it, and therefore it is not dangerous for him to remove the vine.
The Yaavetz then mentions another factor. In every instance mentioned by the earlier authorities, the tree could not be removed and planted elsewhere. The Yaavetz suggests that there is no prohibition to uproot a fruit tree, if one will replant the tree elsewhere. Thus, he concludes that even when no other solution exists to permit destroying a fruit tree, one may remove it by its root and replant it elsewhere and then use the land for whatever one chooses.
Saving the Goldbergs!
The Yaavetz’s suggestion is very welcome news to the Goldbergs. They purchased a new house hoping to expand it onto the huge lot that they have that contains several beautiful fruit trees. May they remove the trees to expand their house?
According to the Yaavetz, they may remove the trees and plant them elsewhere, and then expand their house onto the extended lot.
This ruling of the Yaavetz is not without its detractors. The Chasam Sofer (Yoreh Deah #102) concludes that one should not rely on this idea of the Yaavetz to remove a tree when other lenient reasons do not apply. However, he does accept the Yaavetz’s rule as a stringency — that if one can replant a fruit tree it, one may not destroy it, since the demolition of the tree is unnecessary. Thus, if a fruit tree is damaging other trees, one may destroy it only when replanting it is not an option.
Shady Mitzvah
At this point, I would like to discuss one of the above-mentioned questions.
"We just moved into a new house, and the only place where we can put a sukkah is in an area which is shaded by a fruit tree. May we chop down the tree in order to have a place to build our sukkah?"
This exact question was asked of Rav Tzvi Pesach Frank, who was the rav of Yerushalayim for many decades until his passing in 1960. Rav Frank cites and analyzes many of the above-mentioned sources, and is inclined to be lenient, reasoning that the performance of a mitzvah cannot be considered a destructive act. He concludes that one should have a gentile remove it, but not as an agent for a Jew, although he does not explain how one accomplishes this (Shu’t Har Tzvi, Orach Chayim II #102).
Thus, we see that there are different ways of understanding when one may destroy a fruit tree for a valid reason, and each person should ask his own rav what to do in his particular circumstances.
The Ramban explains that the reason for the mitzvah is that one should have trust in Hashem that He will assist us in vanquishing our enemies, and then we will be able to use the fruit from this tree. So why destroy it? One should treat the tree as if it is already in my possession!
This Shiur is published also at Rabbi Kaganof's site
Rabbi Yirmiyohu Kaganoff
Was the Rabbi of the Young Israel of Greater Buffalo, the Congregation Darchei Tzedek and also served as a dayan on the Beis Din of Baltimore. Now is a Rabbi in Neve Yaakov, Jerusalem. His Shiurim and Q&A can be found on his site: www.rabbikaganoff.com
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Diary of a mild CEO
When Microsoft Corp.'s online magazine Slate launched in 1996, it made all the right moves.
By Lisa M. Bowman | March 6, 1998 -- 11:02 GMT (03:02 PST) | Topic: Hardware
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Monday -- exactly a week before the online 'zine plans to start charging for subscriptions - Slate began publishing a series of diary entries by Microsoft (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates, detailing his trip to Washington to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
It's not that Gates uses the journal entries as a platform to spout serious Microsoft propaganda. Their content is much tamer than Gates' Senate testimony or comments his executives have made in court. The diaries contain only passing references to the company's plans to integrate everything under the sun into the operating system for the greater good of man.
Still, the magazine doesn't make it absolutely clear on the diary page that it's owned by Microsoft, and it puts the musings of its head publisher right on the front page.
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The journal entries consist of a string of simplistic stream-of-consciousness sentences that read -- as one columnist put it -- like a 12-year-old's description of "What I did last summer."
Gates talks about the mundane details of a tech guru on the go -- from chomping on donuts with senators to waiting endlessly for a cab from Radio City Music Hall back to the hotel.
Basically, the diaries try to convince readers that Bill's just a guy who wants what everyone else does: to spend time with his toddler and sleep in his own bed.
But the timing and the benign content of the diaries bring up questions about whether Slate -- which has been held up as a model for thoughtful, magazine-style Web journalism - is playing into the hands of Microsoft's PR machine.
Three months ago, Microsoft began a kinder, gentler image campaign, in the face of a federal lawsuit and investigations by approximately a dozen state trustbusters. The diaries propel the image of Bill the Regular Guy.
"The issue for me is his relationship to the site and whether there may or may not have been pressure for him to have this forum," Lynch said. When asked about the connection, Slate associate publisher Colene McBeth said: "That's not the intention. You may be trying to make something out of nothing. It's really a non-event."
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Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter's Jack Dorsey told lawmakers on Wednesday that they are better prepared to combat foreign interference on their platforms, even as Democrats and Republicans alike expressed doubts that the social media giants had fully cleaned them up ahead of the midterm elections.
Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, and Dorsey, the leader of Twitter, conveyed their message in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, almost a year after their companies told the same panel of lawmakers that Russia used inauthentic accounts to spread divisive political messages around the 2016 election. This time, though, lawmakers on the committee came equipped with a roster of fresh complaints -- from the proliferation of fake video online to the heightened need to protect privacy and combat hacking.
As they testified, though, some of their most public adversaries sat behind them, including conservative media personalities like Alex Jones, the founder of the conspiracy-minded InfoWars. The presence of Jones, who had been banned from both platforms for violating rules against harassment, seemed all the more striking given a Wednesday afternoon hearing in the House, featuring Dorsey, focused on allegations that tech is biased against right-leaning users.
Radio host and conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and alt right conspiracy theorist Jack Posobiec watch the tech Senate hearing. (JIM LO SCALZO/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock/Jim Lo Scalzo/Epa-Efe/Rex/Shutterstock)
The tech executives remained focused on their arguments to Senate leaders that they had made great strides cleaning up their sites and services ahead of the 2018 midterms, when the composition of Congress is up for grabs.
"We were too slow to spot this and too slow to act. That's on us," Sandberg said. "This interference was completely unacceptable. It violated the values of our company and of the country we love."
Sandberg added: "We are more determined than our opponents and we will keep fighting."
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Dorsey, meanwhile, stressed to lawmakers: “We found ourselves unprepared and ill-equipped for the immensity of the problems we've acknowledged. Abuse, harassment, troll armies, propaganda through bots and human coordination, disinformation campaigns and divisive filter bubbles -- that's not a healthy public square."
"Required changes wont be fast or easy," he said. "Today we're committing to the people and this committee to do it openly."
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Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), the chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, opened the hearing by citing the promise of social media before adding, “But we’ve also learned about how vulnerable social media is to corruption and misuse. The very worst examples of this are absolutely chilling and a threat to our democracy."
Already, Russia and Iran already have sought to interfere by passing themselves off as American groups or people to shape the views of American voters, say lawmakers and technology executives. Facebook, Google and Twitter together took down hundreds of accounts tied to the two countries last month, a move that prompted Burr to express fear that “more foreign countries are now trying to use your products to shape and manipulate American political sentiment as an instrument of statecraft."
“Each of you have come a long way with respect to recognizing the threat,” added Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the committee. “The bad news, I’m afraid, is that there is a lot of work still to do. And I’m skeptical that, ultimately, you’ll be able to truly address this challenge on your own. Congress is going to have to take action here.”
“The era of the Wild West in social media is coming to an end,” he said. “Where we go from here is an open question.”
In response, Sandberg stressed Facebook’s work to hire more people to review content and invest more heavily in artificial intelligence that can spot fake accounts. Dorsey pledged a thorough review of the way Twitter works, echoing comments he made to the Washington Post earlier this month. He also said that Twitter is “considering” plans to label automated accounts, typically called “bots,” though he warned that whatever system the company unveils will not be able to detect all bots created by users.
“It's really a question of the implementation, but we are interested in it, and we are going to do something along those lines,” he said.
At a second congressional hearing Wednesday, Dorsey sought to address Republican lawmakers' allegations that Twitter unfairly targets conservative-leaning posts and accounts during an afternoon hearing on the House Energy and Commerce Committee. President Trump has echoed those charges — last week threatening Google in particular with regulation. Tech giants have denied the accusations.
"Humans are building the algorithms, humans make decisions about Twitter's Terms of Services... and humans can make mistakes,” said Rep. Greg Walden (R-Ore.), the chairman of the committee.
[Inside Facebook and Twitter’s secret meetings with Trump aides and conservative leaders who say tech is biased]
Seeking to assuage lawmakers, Dorsey pledged in his opening testimony: "Impartiality is our guiding principle.” His testimony, submitted ahead of the hearing, included a new study that found Democratic and Republican lawmakers have equal reach on the site.
Lawmakers aren't limited in the questions they can pose Facebook and Twitter. Sandberg’s boss, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, faced questions in April hearings that extended far beyond the reason the hearing was called: Facebook's entanglement with Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy that improperly accessed 87 million users' personal information. Sandberg could also face questions on Cambridge Analytica.
Sandberg found herself similarly under siege about the company’s data-collection practices. Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) specifically said the vast troves of information at Facebook and Twitter could be the “weapon of choice” for hackers working with foreign powers, so the industry “must not make it easier for our adversaries to seize these weapons and use them against us.”
Facebook and Twitter have been under pressure to police abusive, hateful or harassing content on their platforms — including accounts like Infowars, a conspiracy theory site that the tech giants suspended last month.
The founder of that site, Jones, hovered around the Senate hearing. He convened his own press conference criticizing the platforms for anti-conservative bias. Sweating and yelling in front of TV cameras outside the hearing room, he said the tech companies' bans on him have violated Americans' first amendment rights. He later appeared to clash with Sen. Marco Rubio, as the Republican lawmaker was being interviewed by reporters. During the hearing, Jones appeared to murmur into his phone and film the proceedings.
Alex Jones is in the hearing room again, this time in the front row of seats behind reporters. pic.twitter.com/7y5kO5oBNR
— Cat Zakrzewski (@Cat_Zakrzewski) September 5, 2018
Absent from both hearings is Google. The search giant had been invited to testify at the Senate Intelligence Committee, but declined to send Larry Page, the chief executive officer of Google's parent company, Alphabet.
The decision drew sharp rebukes from Democrats and Republicans alike, who accused Google of trying to dodge congressional scrutiny, though lawmakers could have subpoenaed Page or his peers and opted against it. Lawmakers explicitly left an open seat at the hearing to call attention to Google’s absence.
Kent Walker, the senior vice president of global affairs at Google, said in a blog post Tuesday that he would still come to Washington “and brief lawmakers.”
Cat Zakrzewski contributed to this story.
Craig Timberg Craig Timberg is a national technology reporter for The Washington Post. Since joining The Post in 1998, he has been a reporter, editor and foreign correspondent, and he contributed to The Post’s Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the National Security Agency. Follow
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Virginia Beach city staffer fired for comments on shooting
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Posted: Fri 9:38 PM, Jul 12, 2019
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) — A Virginia Beach city employee has been fired and charged with disturbing the peace after supervisors say she threatened them during a meeting about the deadly mass shooting that erupted in a city building in May.
It's the second time since the killings that authorities have filed the misdemeanor charge against a city employee who allegedly became hostile toward supervisors.
The Virginian-Pilot reported Friday that 48-year-old human services worker Elizabeth Mann told managers that the slayings of 11 city employees and a building contractor could have been prevented. Mann also told supervisor Wendy Swallow that Swallow was the type of person who pushed the shooter to act, according to a partial recording of the June 3 meeting obtained by the newspaper.
"You are exactly the same type of supervisor that probably pushed this guy to do that," Mann told Swallow.
On May 31, city engineer DeWayne Craddock opened fire in the municipal building where he worked. He had submitted his resignation the same day.
The criminal complaint filed by police against Mann alleged that she used an aggressive tone and that Swallow feared for her safety.
Swallow did not respond to the newspaper's requests for comment.
Mann told the newspaper that she never cursed and was sitting throughout the encounter.
"I wasn't comparing myself to the shooter or justifying his actions at all," she said.
City spokeswoman Julie Hill confirmed Mann's termination.
She also confirmed that mental health services are being offered to employees to help them process the tragedy, but declined to comment further.
Mann also faces protective orders from four supervisors, including Swallow. Hill said the supervisors filed the protective orders as private citizens and not in any official capacity.
The three other supervisors did not respond to the newspaper's requests for comment.
Earlier this month, The Virginian-Pilot reported that another city employee was charged with disturbing the peace.
Jonathan McIvor allegedly raised his voice and showed hostility when his supervisors asked why he wouldn't return to work in the building where the shooting occurred.
Chief technology officer Darrell Riddick and acting operations manager Jamie Weaver alleged that McIvor began yelling, "stood up aggressively" and stormed out, saying he was going to call Human Resources.
McIvor's attorney said in July that the criminal complaint does not accuse McIvor of making any threats: "The man did nothing remotely close to criminal," Taite Westendorf said.
Virginia Beach's city manager has said nobody would be forced to return to the building. But McIvor's information technology job apparently requires that he access server equipment in the basement.
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Home LOCAL NEWS INNSCOR OUTLET RAIDED BY A GROUP OF BITTER THUGS & STOLE CASH
INNSCOR OUTLET RAIDED BY A GROUP OF BITTER THUGS & STOLE CASH
Robbers armed with stones, last Sunday robbed an Innscor outlet within Bulawayo’s Central Business District before getting away with more than $200 in cash and a Point of Sale machine.
The robbers took advantage of a blackout in the city and pounced on the outlet situated at corner Leopold Takawira Avenue and Fort Street in the early hours of Sunday morning.
Bulawayo acting provincial police spokesperson Inspector Abednico Ncube confirmed the incident and said police were still hunting for the suspects.
“A group of hooligans or gangsters that was disappointed in a citywide black out decided to vent out their frustrations on the outlet, after a show they had attended failed to live up to its billing, owing much to an electrical fault which resulted in a blackout.
“Our investigations reveal that a group of rowdy people had been making noise in the CBD moving towards that area,” he said.
He said members of the public should desist from practising delinquent and unruly behaviour.
“People should not vent their anger on businesses. This was an act of hooliganism and as police we will not accept such unruly elements within our society,” said Insp Ncube.
An Innscor employee, who preferred anonymity, said a three-man gang armed with stones pounced on the outlet, where the security guard was attacked with stones and other workers who scurried for cover before they could secure the premises.
“Three of the men threw stones at the guard and other employees. They had to run for cover. One of them tried to heroically secure the place but failed as it all happened so fast. They grabbed the cashier, restrained her before ransacking the cash register. They then stole a swipe machine and fled from the scene. All this was captured on CCTV,” said the employee.
Abednico Ncube
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Home LOCAL NEWS PRESIDENT MNANGAGWA’S GOVERNMENT SETS SIGHTS ON GHOST WORKERS
PRESIDENT MNANGAGWA’S GOVERNMENT SETS SIGHTS ON GHOST WORKERS
The government is working hard to root out ‘ghost workers’ form the civil service, Public Service Commission (PSC) chairperson Vincent Hungwe has said.
He was speaking earlier this week on the side-lines of an induction workshop for senior State bureaucrats and admitted rules had been broken in employing some people.
“It is true that there are instances where people have been employed outside the rules and procedures of the Public Service Commission,” said the PSC boss.
“The PSC has dealt with such issues and we continue to identify them and get rid of them.
“But in instances where we have more personnel than is institutionally required, that does not render the person a ghost worker.
“It’s only that our systems have not been efficient and effective enough in terms of making sure that there is resonance between what we require and the numbers we hire.”
An external audit never made public revealed former president Robert Mugabe’s government had hired nearly 80,000 officers from the national youth training program without following procedures leading to a ballooning of the wage bill.
New president Emmerson Mnangagwa is battling to rationalise.
Hungwe also revealed there are too many bosses in the civil service.
“There has always been a tendency to assume that the overall size of the civil service in Zimbabwe is too big,” he explained
“There are certain areas in respect of certain levels where there are more people than required and that has tended to be the case at the highest level of the civil service like permanent secretaries and principle directors.
“But this does not in aggregate terms imply that the civil service is too big.”
He added that the PSC is working at reducing incidences where there are “square pegs in round holes” and make sure people are deployed in areas where their competencies benefit government more.
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Worship & music / Music / Recordings / Elgar Organ Works
Robert Quinney performs an imposing recital of works by Elgar featuring the majestic Organ Sonata in G.
Pomp and Circumstance March No 3 in C minor
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Robert Quinney organ
Sir Edward Elgar (1857–1934) wrote very little solo music for the organ, despite the fact that he was for a short time a professional organist. Given this ambiguous nature of Elgar’s relationship with the organ, and with the church culture of his time, this programme looks beyond the works originally conceived for organ to music arranged from orchestral originals. Robert Quinney was Sub-Organist of Westminster Abbey between 2004 and 2013.
"Revel in Robert Quinney's superb, multifaceted, virile, eloquently expressive playing of Westminster Abbey's mighty Harrison & Harrison organ."
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"Thoughtfully programmed, compellingly played, Quinney's Elgar entices."
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It’s a privilege to live and work here – the Abbey really is the heart of the country and its history.
Martin - The Dean’s Verger
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Gaspard Lorito, Lorito’s Italian Kitchen founder, dies at 78
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BY: Carlos E. Medina
For more than 40 years, Gaspard Lorito served up authentic New York-style pizza at his namesake restaurant, Lorito’s Italian Kitchen, on East Silver Springs Boulevard in Ocala. In recent years, the 78-year-old Lorito had backed away from the restaurant due to health issues but visited often to check on his children, who took over the eatery, and to greet customers.
Lorito died Monday night after a long battle with congestive heart failure. The news quickly spread on social media, with hundreds of people who had enjoyed a slice or two of pizza over the years lamenting his passing. “So sad ... We have been going there for 35 years. We would always see his smiling face and he would ask how we were doing. RIP Papa Lorito. Heaven’s gonna have the best damn pizza maker up there now,” wrote Doc Martin on the restaurant’s Facebook page.
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By John Goldacker (Java John) • May 7, 2018
Monday night May 7th, on "ON THE FLIPSIDE" With Java John we shall celebrate HAIR!
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I've been going to Arlo Guthrie concerts for the past 40 years, I think I've seen him about 10 times. Most of those shows were after the year 2000, when we had the pleasure of seeing and meeting Arlo at that year's Gamble Rogers Folk festival in St Augustine. But, after Friday night's Re:Generation tour stop at the Plaza Live in Orlando I found myself thinking back to my earliest Guthrie concerts....
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Bana's debut on the mountain
By Peter McKay, 03 Mar 2009 Motorsport
Like some but not all of his films, there was a happy ending.
A hunk of Hollywood came to Mount Panorama last weekend when Eric Bana - thespian and car tragic - raced at the legendary track for the first time, in the Bathurst 12 Hour race.
No driver in the field of 47 cars was under greater pressure than the luminary in car number 62. If the star of Munich and Chopper were to screw up and crash, the news would flash around the world in an instant. With accompanying photographic evidence.
Bana, the rookie in a shiny new suit with precious little serious motor sport experience (let alone any personal knowledge of the perils of Mount Panorama), was paired with seasoned drivers Tim Leahey and Peter Hills.
Bana and his mates were credited with a handy 10th place finish.
It was a long day. The 12 Hour marathon, little brother to the Bathurst 1000, takes almost twice as long as the V8 supercar epic.
Pulling his weight, Bana was conscripted to take three stints of around an hour or so at the wheel of the turbocharged Mitsubishi Evo.
A measure of Bana's attitude was his request for the media to leave him alone over the weekend to concentrate on his big race debut. Not quite Greta Garbo, but close.
He started the race conservatively and steadily lowered his lap times in the Evo promoting the star's latest film Love the Beast, a documentary about Bana's obsession with cars.
"The weekend has been a bit of a dream," Bana said afterwards. "I really feel like I've lived a dream to finish in the top 10 at Bathurst.
"It's been an awesome day."
Bana said the team came along a little under-prepped and that a top 10 result was a long shot, "but we got there in the end".
"Bathurst has an awesome reputation and I expected it to be an awesome challenge - and it was.
"But it was more fun than I expected it to be too. It was great out there - I had faster cars coming through and I was getting past slower cars.
"I've had a couple of years worth of racing in one day!"
Hearts skipped a beat in the team's pit garage soon after lunch, when Bana was seen cruising into the pitlane, hazard lights flashing, it appeared the inexperienced racer may have broken the car. But after some attention from mechanics to fix a heat-related problem under the bonnet, the orange Evo returned to the track and on to the chequered flag, Bana's reputation intact.
Team-mate Leahey was impressed with the neophyte's Bathurst debut. "He's a good bloke; he listened, he was sensible and he got progressively faster. It was a good first-up effort."
Bana's motor sporting experience before last weekend was limited to some Porsche racing and the Targa Tasmania tarmac rally (where he crashed his much-loved XC Falcon). He is not the first big screen star to be bitten by the motor racing bug. Paul Newman was a very successful sports car racer who finished second at Le Mans. James Dean was a wannabe racer at the time he was killed. Steve McQueen was good enough to do his own stunt driving in action films.
So does Bana want more of the same? You bet! "I'd love to come back next year and do it all over again."
Holden picks Commodore over Camaro for Supercars
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Danny Brown Renders the Trap Black and White in “Lost” Video
Peter A. Berry
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Danny Brown's Atrocity Exibition album is the gift that keeps on giving. On Tuesday (July 18), the rapper pulled up with yet another striking visual for one of the tracks on the project. This one's for "Lost." Check it out for yourself below.
The new video is a heavily stylized one, with the clips shot in black-and-white and everyone involved being excessively animated in their motions. This only adds to the frenetic feel of the song, which finds Brown spitting over a sample of Lena Lim's "Flame of Love (Lian Zhi Huo)." Adding to the instrumental is the sound of a whistling teapot, which lets you know the trap—or the tension, or Brown's drug addiction or desperation—is getting hot.
In the vid, Brown rocks some gold teeth as he gets to work, cooking up some crack in his trap house. There are women literally laundering money, cooking up some cocaine and in some cases, throwing up as Brown moves about looking a good bit like a drug addict. Fits the song pretty well.
The video for "Lost" is directed by Matilda Finn, and it follows the sort of disturbing vibe captured by Brown's visual for "Ain't It Funny," which was directed by Jonah Hill.
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Andrew Jackson Jihad
A Song Dedicated to the Memory of Stormy the Rabbit
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American Tune
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Getting Naked, Playing with Guns
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Hate Song For Brains
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Heartilation
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Hitman: Absolution and Deadlight free in April
By Nathan Bowring • 5 years ago
April is right around the corner, bringing with it the newest batch of Games with Gold titles. Starting April 1, Hitman: Absolution will be available for free for Xbox Live Gold Subscribers. Absolution is the most recent entry in the stealth franchise, seeing Agent 47 looking for redemption after being betrayed by the Agency. Become a deadly assassin, hiding in plain sight and finding creative ways to take out your targets.
The second game of the month is Deadlight, available starting April 16 and lasting until the end of the month. Randall Wayne is a survivor of a zombie apocalypse, fighting his way through the ruins of 80s Seattle. This sidescrolling platformer was originally released part of 2012’s Summer of Arcade, but did not live up to the promotion’s usual high standards (check out our review here).
Reminder: today is the last day to pick up Dungeon Defenders for free, so make sure you get it while you still can. The Game with Gold program has been receiving criticism due to its game selection, but recently Phil Spencer stated he has been working towards improving the program. What do you think of April’s titles?
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Nathan Bowring
I'm a software developer who enjoys gaming, and I know how cliche that sounds. I've been playing XBLA games for some time now, and I'm a huge fan of the price and creativity of these games. Writing about them is almost as fun as playing them. Almost.
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Inside the 'BTS World' Game and the New "Dream Glow" Song With Charli XCX
On June 26th you can go back to the beginning
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Charli XCX and Lizzo are two of the most confident, fierce, and inspiring queens in music. After taking over in lanes of their own, the two unapologetically authentic stars came together for a collab that will change music forever.
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The song, which is titled “Girls,” features an incredible foursome of Rita Ora, Cardi B, Bebe Rexha, and Carli XCX.
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"Bad at Love" has quickly become a fan favorite off Halsey 's latest album hopeless fountain kingdom , and as of yesterday, it has become one of our favorite music videos of 2017.
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We think the Spice Girls would "Wannabe" friends with these two pop stars. Halsey joined Charli XCX on stage at Lollapalooza August 6 in Chicago to cover the iconic hit. The "Boys" singer surprised the crowd with her future tour mate to show off some major girl power. Halsey's 'Hopeless Fountain...
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Charli XCX gets us. She can't stop thinking about boys, and they are HOT in her latest music video.
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The Jonas Brothers Cap off Their 'Late Late Show' Takeover With 'Carpool Karaoke'
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Effingham Embree, New York
Effingham Embree was born in 1759 in New York City and died in 1817. He was at work as a watch & clock maker in partnership with Thomas Pearsall as early as 1781. The firm of Pearsall & Embree carried out an extensive trade with London and they offered an array of early fusee watches, bracket clocks, and tall case clocks using material sourced from England. By 1789 Embree was on his own and produced some of the finest high style inlaid tall case clocks made in America. An example of his work currently resides in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House. Some of his best clocks are housed in fabulous eagle inlaid cases with rich grain mahogany facings highlighted with quarter fan inlaid accents. The clock that we are currently offering for sale is a known, documented example that was first discovered in the 1930’s and it is pictured in November 28th, 1935 edition of the “The American Collector” on page 13. In the Spring of 2010 it surfaced at public auction at Skinner Inc., Boston MA where it realized $ 38,500 on that day.
The pagoda top bonnet with star and eagle inlay above an inlaid center plinth. Flanking the glazed tombstone door are free standing reeded columns retained by brass capitals. The waist section with inlaid frieze above a shaped waist door with line and quarter fan inlays flanked by reeded quarter columns. The base with quarter fan inlay above a step molding all resting on bracket feet.
Eight day brass striking movement coupled to an Osborne painted iron dial with strike silent, seconds bit, and calendar. The dial retains the original signature and location: “Effingham Embree, New York.” The works are powered by a pair of original lead filled brass shell weights. Overall, the clock stands at 101 1/2.” The finials are original and both case locks have keys and are functional. An original winder comes with the clock as well. A great piece of Americana !
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523i MT (177 HP)
2003 - 2007 BMW 5 series 523i MT (177 HP) Specs and Mods
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Andrea Howard – Words & Pictures
Andrea's Life, the Universe and Everything
Holiday hand holding.
“Beauty lies in the eyes of the hand holder.”
Luckily for us, we live in a city of smilers. Gracious, grateful faces wandering the mall in the hope of nothing more than a cheap meal, a cold beer, or a half priced pair of new shoes. And, as it’s school holidays in Brisbane, hundreds of these people are taking full advantage of a gorgeous shed-a-layer type of spring day.
A black-hatted magician is holding centre stage, hollering to the growing crowd whilst creating a makeshift platform with his step ladder (apparently he never knew his real ladder).
The crowd is made up of lunching office workers, joyful school children, elderly gentleman, tottering old ladies, overseas tourists, excited shoppers and families with prams. But for me the best thing to see is the hand holders. They catch my eye, and make me grin.
The teenage girls with curious confidence, tattoos and undercuts. The children innocently noticing patterns in the pavement, skipping behind mothers more intent on texting and juggling oversized shopping bags. The high school sweethearts unknowingly attracted to each other’s similar features. Older couples who hold their histories in their clasped hands, with no need to tag their geographical position on social media.
I sit and watch the wonderful flow of humans for a little longer, and realise that although the magician has the attention of the crowd, it is the joy and the smiles of the crowd which holds mine. Turns out that this visual solidarity, the trusted connection of people just holding hands, is simply magic in itself.
Admit it. We all love dad jokes.
Almost every time I open my mouth in an attempt of clever humour, my efforts are met with “That is such a dad joke!” and I don’t even mind.
In my experience, despite what people say, everyone loves a joke that sounds like something your dad would come up with. Whether it’s a play on words, a double meaning or a repetitive pun, you can’t deny that an over-the-top eye roll is worth every second if it also causes the corners of the mouth to head north.
It started in October. A decade ago.
Buy a domain name he said. Too easy! she said. We’ll make you a website for your photos he said. I can do this! she said.
That was 2008.
From the outset, the amount of time and effort required to complete such a task was grossly underestimated by this young photographer. If a chocolate beetroot cake takes approximately one hour and twenty minutes to complete, surely the creation of a basic website could be only slightly more.
In reality, distraction replaced action for so long that it actually ended up taking nine years, ten months and twenty-two days longer than the average website to come to fruition.
Thanks Brit and Brett.
I owe you both a chocolate cake.
Raylee Hudson on Holiday hand holding.
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Home You Fought Prejudice and Won - Japanese-American Internment Camps in Arkansas Bulletin Number 4, Page 1
Bulletin Number 4 from Rohwer Office of the Superintendent of Schools to Rohwer Center School Staff
Bulletin Number 4, Page 1
Title Bulletin Number 4 from Rohwer Office of the Superintendent of Schools to Rohwer Center School Staff
Creator Rohwer Office of the Superintendent
Biographical/Historical Note After December 7, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created the War Relocation Authority (WRA), which selected ten sites in which to imprison more than 110,000 persons of Japanese ancestry, over half of whom were American citizens. Two of these camps were in the Arkansas Delta, one at Rohwer in Desha County, and the other at Jerome in sections of Chicot and Drew counties. These camps were open from October 1942 to November 1945, with over 16,000 Japanese-Americans incarcerated during that period. Hazel Linam Retherford was born on January 27, 1906. During World War II, she was a teacher at both the Jerome and Rohwer Japanese relocation centers in Arkansas, eventually helping to close both centers. She later went to Washington, District of Columbia, to complete War Relocation Authority records on the camps.
Description Three-page bulletin from Rohwer's Office of the Superintendent of Schools to Rohwer teachers discussing the importance of teaching, of reducing wartime strain on the children, and the future of Nisei children in American schools.
Physical Description Bulletin, 3 pages, 8.5" x 11"
Subjects Evacuations; Military assistance; Military camps; Camps; Refugee camps; War; Japanese; Japanese Americans; World War II (1939-1945); Internment camps; Relocation camps; Education
Related Resources Amon Guy Thompson papers, MG04582 - MG04586; Austin Smith papers, 1942–1945, MG04350; Beauty Behind Barbed Wire: The Arts of the Japanese in Our War Relocation Camps, MG01299; Community Analysis Reports and Community Analysis Trend Reports of the War Relocation Authority, 1942-1946, MG03846 - MG03847; Japanese Camp papers, MG03848 - MG03869
Geographical Area McGehee, Desha County. (Ark.)
Local Identifier Hazel Retherford Papers, MS.00643, Box 1, File 1, Item 30
Preferred Citation Bulletin Number 4 from Rohwer Office of the Superintendent of Schools to Rohwer Center School Staff, Hazel Retherford Papers, MS.00643, Box 1, File 1, Item 30, Arkansas State Archives, Little Rock, Arkansas.
Title Bulletin Number 4, Page 1
Bulletin Number 4 from Rohwer Office of the Superintendent...
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HIP HOP MOVIES: House Party
|In Uncategorized, HIP HOP
|By Ryan McLelland
I missed the boat on House Party back in 1990. I’m not really sure why…I’m going to chalk it up to I just wasn’t the biggest Kid ‘n Play fan. I seem to remember them playing some club local here in Trenton and something happened. Maybe violence (as per usual) or they cancelled and then there was violence (as per usual). While I was familiar with Kid n’ Play I didn’t listen to their music. Around this time it was probably De La Soul and Ice-T. Still loved Run-DMC. DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince (which I’ll swing back to in a second). But not Kid ‘n Play. House Party actually didn’t play at many theaters around the country and I can’t be sure if and when it even played here. I caught House Party on home video and instantly loved it. I saw House Party 2 in theaters and pretty much loved it too. I would have seen House Party 3 in theaters but I was away at Basic Training so I had to wait until later to see the flick.
House Party was written, produced, and directed by the most excellent Reginald Hudlin. I’ve been in awe of the man for quite a number of years…we got to chat quite a number of years ago when I worked for Newsarama and I was doing an article on him. I got to profess my love for House Party (AND Boomerang. AND The Great White Hype) and it was really cool speaking to the man. But that was like…13 years ago. Man I’m living in the past, aren’t I?
Back to House Party. For years it was rumored that the film was supposed to star DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince. I know there are direct quotes out there somewhere but I searched Google for two seconds and came up with basically nothing. Basically the story comes down to Will Smith and Jeff did the song A Nightmare on My Street from their MONSTER second album He’s The DJ, I’m the Rapper (dude I broke that cassette. I may have listened to Parents Just Don’t Understand 6,000 times). I believe New Line Cinema was pissed off about the song for some reason and warning stickers had to be put on the single’s release saying it had nothing to do with the soundtrack for Nightmare on Elm Street 4. But it also put the duo on New Line’s radar. They were offered House Party but turned it down. History has seen that was a bit foolish…though the duo would find success with Will’s Fresh Prince of Bel Air (and obviously Will would find massive box office success). By the by if you don’t cop Jeff Townes Summertime Mix each year you are truly missing out.
The plot of House Party is pretty simple. Play’s parents are away and he’s throwing a party. Kid wants to go to said party but ends up getting in trouble after a run in with Full Force (Paul Anthony, Bowlegged Lou, and B-Fine). The school sends a slip home which ends up reaching Kid’s Pop (Robin Harris). Kid goes on punishment…no party…no girlies…nothing. Luckily Pops falls asleep watching Dolemite so Kid sneaks out the house.
The thing is he has a hard time getting to the party. He doesn’t have a car so he has to huff it. But he’s not so lucky as he keeps trying to duck Full Force (who are out to kick his ass) while avoiding the slightly racist cops. Eventually Kid makes it to the party…which really is the best part of the movie.
There’s so many great things about this party. The biggest thing is it actually feels like a high school party. Packed to the max with people, people dancing, the host trying to not get his parents shit broke. Not every party I went to had a DJ (at most it was just a radio playing music) but Kid and Play are also best friends with Bilal (Martin Lawrence) who is the DJ extraordinaire.
There’s two best friends in Sidney (Tisha Campbell) and Sharane (A.J. Johnson) who kinda both like Kid. They fuck with him a bunch and try to play it off to each other that they don’t really like him. But it become evident that they both kinda do like him. Causes a bit of tension – and it is really well done.
Probably the best known part of the movie is when Sidney and Sharane have a “dance battle” against Kid and Play. Kid and Play get to show off their well known dancing skills including the move that is dubbed “The Funky Charleston.” I’ll give it to them…it is a pretty great dance and it is no wonder they are so well known for it.
Rappers Groove and Chill (from the rap duo Groove B Chill) are in the flick as well. Groove hits the liquor pretty hard and actually starts out the dance battle with Kid before his drunk ass falls out and Play takes his place. Chill keeps hitting the DJ table and causing the track to skip – pissing off Bilal. It’s pretty damn funny. While you never really saw Groove again and the duo never released another album after their 1990 debut, Daryl “Chill” Mitchell has had a pretty damn long acting career. I love him from Sgt. Bilko and Galaxy Quest…plus his time on NBC’s show Ed. The man is now stuck in a wheelchair after a motorcycle accident and he is still out there getting acting gigs. I’m glad to see life didn’t keep him down.
So Full Force show up to kick Kid’s ass but finally with some boys at his back they are driven away. Kid tries to kick it with Sharane and when that doesn’t work he tries to kick it with Sidney. That actually DOES work and the dude almost get some (if it wasn’t for his old ass jimmy-hat he just might have). After barely escaping Sidney’s parents Kid gets locked up against Full Force and then literally locked up in jail. This is also a quite humorous part as Kid tries his damnedest to rap his way out of getting ass raped in jail.
There’s so many great things about this movie. Absolutely #1 is both Kid and Play. They are amazing on screen. If you look back at the films of this time you come up with Krush Groove, Wild Style, Disorderlies, and Tougher Than Leather…all decent films but you learn quickly that, other than Run from Run-DMC, they really aren’t actors. Kid ‘n Play might be rappers but they are quite amazing actors. They sell the hell out of themselves on the big screen and they are damn fun to watch. They would release an album at the same time House Party came out (perfect timing) and see a big hit with their song Funhouse. They would star in 2 more House Party movies, another film Class Act, a kids cartoon, and a Marvel comic book.
It didn’t take long for Martin Lawrence to break out huge. He would reteam with Kid and Play for House Party 2 and reteam with Hudlin for Boomerang. His show Martin would be a MASSIVE success for him (where he would team up with House Party’s Tisha Campbell…though things didn’t end well for that duo) and Bad Boys would launch Martin (and Will Smith) to the stratosphere.
I always find it funny to see Full Force in these movies. It was about six years prior that Paul Anthony and B-Fine were playing toughs in Krush Groove and suddenly they were back playing HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. Dudes were like forty. Bowlegged Lou was always my favorite of the three as he has a bit of humor to him…but I enjoyed his performance in Who’s the Man just a bit more.
Robin Harris. Man…Robin Harris. Dude was funny. I watched a shit ton of HBO back in these days and there was NOTHING funnier than Robin Harris’ comedy act. Listening to him talk about Bebe’s Kids was just the funniest shit. He didn’t get to do too many movies – he’s probably most well known for House Party and Do the Right Thing…though I always find it funny he pops up as the bartender in I’m Gonna Git You Sucka. He died way too young. Dude was 36 when he died. 36 YEARS OLD. I am older than Robin Harris was when he did House Party and that shit blows my mind. I find his legacy a bit tarnished by the horrible Bebe’s Kids cartoon movie they did…but if Robin Harris is remembered for anything these days it is probably that damn cartoon (Jamika was a honey though). Watch some Robert Townsend Partners in Crime and tell me Harris isn’t the funniest man EVER.
While the sequels certainly didn’t reach anywhere near the level of the first House Party – this film is still one classic cult film. It’s funny that out of all the films in hip hop history this film series is the one that became a franchise (with three theatrical films and two direct-to-DVD films). There are a ton more hip hop movies to review and I think I will tackle the entire House Party series. Part 4 didn’t feature Kid or Play at all (the film starred IMX aka Immature who appeared in the third film) and while part 5 did feature cameos from Kid and Play the film did not revolve around them again. I’ve never seen the last two films so I guess I’ll be looking forward to tackling them for the first time. But next on the plate will be the pajama jammy-jam.
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Asia Pacific Alliance for Disaster Management (A-PAD) Philippines Launches National Platform
“Together, we can save more lives in less time.”
Pasay City – Citizens’ Disaster Response Center (CDRC) and Philippine Disaster Response Foundation (PDRF) with the support of the Embassy of Japan launched the Philippine national platform of the Asia Pacific Alliance for Disaster Management (A-PAD) today at Hotel Jen Manila. This was preceded by panel discussions of foreign disaster risk and reduction (DRR) practitioners and A-PAD country representatives from South Korea, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Japan, and Sri Lanka on best practices in engaging with local and national governments. They were joined by local DRR experts who expressed support for A-PAD Philippines’ program.
“There is urgency for cooperation among private and public sectors as well as civil society organizations in the Philippines for disaster management before, during, after a disaster”, asserted Dr. Susana Balingit, Chairperson of CDRC.
The said platform provides a framework for collaboration, cooperation, and pooling of efforts. Drawn from the bayanihan spirit, this also outlines how resources can be shared between organizations, institutions, and governments.
Rene “Butch” Meily, President of PDRF notes that one of the current objectives of A-PAD Philippines is to expand and strengthen participation of the private sector in the national level in order to facilitate the sharing of services, experiences, information, and research. This is essential in enhancing disaster response and acceptance of aid into the country which is highly prone to strong typhoons such as Haiyan (locally known as Yolanda) which hit Leyte, Samar, and Northern Cebu in 2013.
“One of the many lessons we learned from Haiyan is that the private sector has an important role to play during all phases of a disaster – from preparedness to relief, recovery and rehabilitation. The A-PAD weaves together a diverse network of private sector groups from different countries. We are stronger when we work together and achieve a collective impact than working individually”, Meily adds.
“Disaster risk reduction is a shared responsibility of the government, communities, businesses, and individuals,” Senator Loren Legarda emphasized in her keynote speech.
Mr Faisal Djalal, A-PAD Asia-Pacific’s Chairperson, welcomed the initiative. “This will further promote A-PAD’s goals to partners in different countries in transferring knowledge and best practices to other national platforms,” he says.
On the countrywide and Asia-Pacific level, the newly established alliance believes in the people’s capacity to respond, manage, and prevent disasters. However, current circumstances emphasize the need for everyone to work together. “A-PAD Philippines believes that there is a lot of potential for partnerships to be fostered with organizations, businesses, and individuals who are interested in the rehabilitation of the environment and in the delivery of services to the least served and most vulnerable sectors of our society,” maintains Lourdes Louella Escandor, Trustee of CDRC.
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ALBUM REVIEW: Battlecross defy genre conventions to deliver contemporary metal excellence as they 'Rise to Power'
GENRES - they're designed to pigeonhole bands, shuffle them into easily defined cubbyholes, where fans can sit down in some sort of comfortable haze, with no real need to think about what the act's intent was when sitting down to write and record music.
And, over the many years of reviewing and interviewing hard rock and metal acts they almost universally don't recognize the category they are allocated by lazy journos and internet trolls.
Sure, they might acknowledge influences, tip a nod to such and such form of metal, but they seem non-plussed when some writer puts them within a genre with nary a thought to what that actually means.
It also leads to the most awful form of metal snobbery, where narrow-minded dweebs leap to label bands 'sell-outs' should they dare deviate from their allocated metal cupboard.
That is why it is so refreshing to come across an act that crosses genres, admits their influences and says to hell with pre-conceptions.
Such is the case with Battlecross as they smash down any labels that may have been appended to their sound following 2013's 'War of Will'.
This month's release of 'Rise to Power' sees them record an album that they wanted to hear, not to a template someone else might expect them to record.
"Going into this record we had more freedom in the sense that we were able to say well, people like what we write, so let's just write what we like," said bassist Don Slater. "We never really want to do the same thing twice.
"We want to play the riffs that we want to hear, and we just want to keep building on our experience and raising the bar," adds guitarist Tony Asta. "No one is handing us anything. We've always been about putting the work in, and we couldn't be prouder of what we've achieved with Rise To Power."
Have they pulled that off? Yes, in bucketloads. Yes, their thrash roots are clear, there are death metal influences, there is even a brief flirtation in the lead work with jazz/funk. In other words they seem to have said "fuck convention, let's have some fun".
It works on many levels: musically there is a variety of approaches to songs, solos, structure and arrangements; lyrically there is a sense of realism, a sense that the words mean more than just posing and posturing, something
And, that's something Kyle "Gumby" Gunther is clear about - the personal element in writing words to accompany the aggression on display.
"I firmly believe you can overcome any obstacles you want to, but that doesn't mean it's going to be easy," he said. "I wrote the song 'Absence' about my son, because he's four years old and I've been away on tour for literally half of his life, and when he won't talk to me on the phone it's worse than any of the crappy things I've been called in my life, but this is the life I chose.
He also takes on those who pose as victims and attempt to manipulate others on 'Not Your Slave', and on "Despised" he faces his "fuck ups" head on, acknowledging that mistakes have been made but refusing to let them destroy him, and it matters to him that he speaks from a place of truth.
"You have to be accountable for what you say, and now people are listening to what I say, so I have a social obligation to say something that's worthwhile.
"If I didn't believe 100% in what I put out there or if I felt that maybe I was full of shit then I'd be the first to say that you shouldn't buy our album, you shouldn't buy our shirts or come to our shows."
But, this release shows that Battlecross have harnessed hard won experiences, turned them into positive musical expressions - 'Not Your Slave' and 'Spoiled' are brimful of boulder sized bombast, with no sense of pretentiousness.
Tony Asta and Hiran Deraniyagala turn in some tightly focused lead and rhythm work between them - layering sounds in an all-out assault, such as on the breakneck 'The Climb' which is more 'death' than thrash, all aided by new sticksman Alex Bent.
Producer Jason Suecof (The Black Dahlia Murderer, Job For A Cowboy) seems to have pushed the band to perform at the highest level - he even adds a solo of his own to 'The Path'.
Throughout this release is evidence that Battlecross have stepped up to the next level in their progression - the power and passion on display is compelling and creative.
But what of the genre? Throughout this review it's hard not to ascribe a tune as having death elements, or thrash elements - even the band themselves are happy with the title 'blue collar thrash'.
However, take the release as a whole and there's not one single term to describe it. Suffice to say then we shall leave it to be described as damn fine modern metal.
Rise to Power is out now on Metal Blade Records
Review by Jonny
Posted by Jonny at 12:05 pm
Labels: Battlecross, Metal Blade, Metal Blade UK and Ireland, Rise To Power
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Articles / Working with Sound: Jess O’Callaghan
Working with Sound: Jess O’Callaghan
Jess O’Callaghan produces The Party Room with Fran Kelly and Patricia Karvelas – ABC RN’s weekly political podcast – as well as producing radio and social media for RN Drive. Before that, she was executive producer of All the Best and producer of The ReReaders.
She spoke to us about marrying current affairs and creative audio, her seriously extensive listening list, and the bounty of Australian sound sitting right under our noses.
What piece of audio has had the most profound effect on you – as a listener, as an audio maker or both?
There are two. Why Oh Why’s ‘Hacking the Uterus‘ totally changed how I thought about audio – there are so many different textures and modes of storytelling here, and I come back to it all the time. It takes such a taboo topic (contraception) and makes it into something spoken and felt and heard, and it’s the best. One moment you’re at a bar with friends talking about the effects of coming off hormonal contraception and thinking oh good, I’m not crazy, then you’re getting cautionary tales from [host] Andrea Silenzi’s mum, and then you’re hearing the stomach-churning audio of an IUD being inserted without general anaesthetic. It changed how I think of what could make sense and how a story can be told.
As a news and current affairs producer, Radiolab’s ‘60 Words‘ had a profound effect on me as an audio maker. So often, the most important stories are hidden in documents and shrouded in the mundane to make them impenetrable. How can we make those stories interesting – and compelling, beautiful audio? This episode hits the spot, but I could list a whole bunch: I’m a real sucker for creative hard news.
I’m a real sucker for creative hard news.
Where did the idea for The Party Room come from?
[ABC RN Journalism Editor] Dina Rosendorff and Patricia Karvelas cooked it up at the end of 2015. We were all listening to a lot of US politics podcasts in the lead up to their election, and talking about them amongst ourselves. They brought me on board when it was just starting to become a reality because they needed a producer for the nuts and bolts of the thing, and also probably because I kept sending them ideas for it in all-caps.
At that stage, we were expecting a September election [in Australia] … but within a month, the double dissolution happened and we had to hit the ground running.
What is your favourite part of making The Party Room?
Working with such experienced, smart broadcasters like Fran and PK. I’ve worked with a lot of broadcasters, and not all of them are up for trying new things, new tones, and new formats. They’re also just super smart.
In our editorial meetings each Wednesday I just kind of say, ‘OK, what’s the story of the week?’, and they talk non-stop for half an hour while I try to scribble things down, and then structure their universes of knowledge into a conversation. There’s always new information in the podcast, because they’ve been texting and calling sources from years of political reporting … and then they manage to present it in such a conversational, shooting-the-breeze way. It’s a podcast dream to build something like this with two such experienced broadcasters.
What is the hardest part of producing the show?
Keeping it short. We’re not tied to the broadcast clock the way we are on Breakfast and RN Drive [Kelly’s and Karvelas’s respective daily radio programmes on RN], but we’ve learnt that there is a sweet spot, a bracket of time length-wise, that we want our podcast to fall within.
It’s tricky, because without the adrenaline that comes with the news looming at the top of the hour, it can be easy to just give ourselves extra minutes/hours, and there is always more to talk about. But at the same time, our listeners form habits around our podcast – people know what they’re getting when they hit download, and they have certain expectations we want to meet every week, which includes not giving them a 45 minute podcast when they are planning on listening to us for 20-something minutes. Some weeks, if there has been a lot of politics, it is hard to not just fill up our hour of studio time.
Another challenge is temporality – we’re all used to broadcasting so nothing is dated when people are hearing it; everything is live. The Party Room is recorded on a Thursday, often before [Australia’s parliamentary] question time, so I’m always trying to edit it as well as I can in a short amount of time, so we can get it up before too much has changed.
It’s something you’ve probably heard a bunch of political podcasts deal with – Pod Save America whines about news breaking pretty much every week, and the FiveThirtyEight crew keep it out of the podcast but are constantly joking about it on Twitter. It frustrates us, but we try and keep it out of the podcast and remember that not everyone is spending their days glued to question time, producing political news. If a story is moving, we situate our discussion within that timeline, something that is becoming a sort of convention in political podcasts.
It’s important to remember why we’re NOT broadcasting – the good stuff that is coming out of being a pre-recorded, edited show that is sent out on an RSS feed hours after it is produced.
What’s the best thing about working with sound?
That chest feeling when things fit together just the way you want them to, and you can exhale again. Also working with the listener’s imagination.
Support each other, share your favourite episodes, shout about podcasts from the rooftops. More listeners for them means more listeners for you.
What’s the best (or worst) advice you’ve received about podcasting?
The best advice is that no one listens to just one podcast – the audience is expanding so quickly that we’re not in competition with each other as much as we are building each other’s audiences. Being competitive is good and healthy, but the proven best way for someone to discover a podcast is through another podcast: so support each other, share your favourite episodes, shout about podcasts from the rooftops. More listeners for them means more listeners for you, rising tide and all that (at least for now!).
The other best advice comes from Manoush Zomorodi at last year’s OzPod conference: tell people you work in podcasting. I used to say I worked in radio (also true), but the next question the Uber driver/bartender/friends parent will ask you is: ‘Do you know Neil Mitchell/Fran Kelly/Phillip Adams?’. If you say you’re working in podcasting, the question is more likely to be something like ‘Which podcast?’, ‘Like Serial?’ or ‘What is a podcast?’, which is your opening to offer to show them how to subscribe to your show on their phone. Genius; thanks, Manoush.
What has been your biggest lesson as a producer so far?
A big lesson came early on when I was working at All the Best, and Serial was just taking off: learn from other media, not just podcasts.
Sounding unique and new doesn’t come from imitating other podcasts. How does your favourite TV show use music? What makes you want to binge-watch a drama? What do newspaper stories do well? This is a terrible example, but: in a TV show, if a song is quoted or mentioned, or covered kind of badly, I want to hear the whole song at the end during the credits.
Fran Kelly and Patricia Karvelas, co-hosts of The Party Room (Photo: supplied)
That feeling is the same for podcasts. Podcasts and creative audio inherited a lot from radio, but a lot of radio conventions come from serving that clock. How can you change your workflow to suit the demands of podcasting instead?
Another very important lesson is this: you will be a lot happier when you and your whole team start ignoring the iTunes rankings.
Do you interact with your audience, or receive feedback or criticism about your work?
This is something we’re slowly doing better at The Party Room. We interact a lot on Twitter, through the @RadioNational account, @RNDrive, and also PK and Fran’s personal accounts, and we ask people to use #ThePartyRoom so we see their tweets. My favourite is the guy who always tweets us pictures from his tractor when he’s listening. We’ve started taking ideas for songs for Fran on Twitter as well, and have had a good response. (You can also reach us at ThePartyRoom@abc.net.au.)
At RN Drive, we’re just starting to experiment with voice memos to try and incorporate our audience into the way we cover policy debates – we did this three times in the lead up to the 2017 federal budget and the responses we had were really interesting, especially on housing. I really love what FiveThirtyEight and Civics 101 are doing in this area, and it’s something we want to play with more.
If you could go out to dinner with any audio maker, who would it be – and what would you talk about?
The wonderful women behind Witch, Please – Marcelle Kosman and Hannah McGregor. As much as I love talking about sound, put a glass of wine in my hand and the conversation will turn to Harry Potter and feminism no matter who is at dinner, so it’s for the best. Also, I live with Bec Fary who hosts the excellent podcast SleepTalker, and she is a top-notch dinner companion as well.
You will be a lot happier when you and your whole team start ignoring the iTunes rankings.
I try and listen to something newsy on the way to work, and something creative and fun on the way home.
So, some way-to-work podcasts are: Pod Save America, Pod Save The World, NPR Politics, PRI’s The World, Background Briefing, God Forbid, Pacific Pundit, Loopcast, The Run-Up, The Daily, First Mondays, Marketplace, Off Message, Katie Couric and Make Me Smart.
Some way-home-from-work podcasts are The West Wing Weekly, Witch, Please, Longform, This American Life, On the Media, This is About, SleepTalker, All the Best, Off Track, Still Processing, The Messenger, Why Oh Why, Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, Another Round and The Real Thing.
I recently loved Making Oprah; it made me burst into tears on the train over the making of a flash mob. That is very good storytelling, because I’ve never cried over a flash mob before. I loved More Perfect from the Radiolab team – I can’t wait for it to come back.
What’s your favourite Australian podcast, and why?
At the moment, it’s The Real Thing: it consistently gives me that satisfying feeling when someone nails the right combo of audio/narrative/listener deduction. Listen to the opening scenes of ‘Nineteen‘ and you’ll hear what I mean. The first time I heard it, I chose the podcast, it was playing through the car speakers and my boyfriend was driving. Before he knew what the episode was about, he thumped the steering wheel with delight and exclaimed, ‘Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon!’ and I was like, ‘Whoa, Mike and Tim have nailed this.’ It’s storytelling music.
And there will always be a place in my heart and podcast app for All the Best. Don’t underestimate the audio magic to be made by producers who know how to use a recorder but don’t know all the rules yet. Some gateway episodes are ‘The Block‘, ‘A Walk in the Park‘ and ‘That Girl‘. I’m also getting very absorbed in The Messenger from the Wheeler Centre and Behind the Wire. It’s so creative and important.
What do you think is unique about Australian audio?
There’s a familiarity to Australian audio that I don’t get listening to American audio, a recognition in my chest when someone really nails it. That is a terrible explanation, though. I think I have to work backwards to explain this.
A lot of Australian producers have come to audio through listening to and loving American audio. I didn’t realise how poor my understanding of Australian audio history was until I was at a Radio Club meet-up in Brooklyn with about 30 American producers and five Australians. We listened to an Australian piece set in a hospital, and an American producer said it reminded them of ‘If’ by Sherre DeLys and John Jacobs. We all just looked at them blankly. Then there were like, 30 Americans all saying ‘If’ over and over, excitedly, and we’re all like, ‘What is happening?’. Anyway, they played it, and I got that chest feeling. Because it is incredible and just so familiar.
The moral of this story is 30 Americans knowing more about Australian audio than you do is a great motivator to download everything ever produced down under. It’s so diverse that I can’t think of a unifying factor, except that when they get it right it feels so good.
Thirty Americans knowing more about Australian audio than you do is a great motivator to download everything ever produced down under.
What’s next for you as a producer?
I’d love to make something that really combines what I’ve learnt producing current affairs and conversations with what I’ve learnt in the world of creative audio. There is so much potential for those things to work together, but I haven’t found the right place for it yet. On the Media does this so consistently, and FiveThirtyEight’s politics podcast dabbles in it.
There’s a Venn diagram where creative audio makers and news hounds overlap, and I want to try and squish into the middle, overlapping bit.
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Nintendo Color TV-Game 6 (カラー テレビゲーム 6, 1977)
The year 1977 marks an historic moment for Nintendo, as it is the year in which they created the first video game for home use; aptly called Color TV-Game 6 and Color TV-Game 15, they are the first two machines in the Color TV-Game series.
Though commercially successful, and thus providing the incentive to continue in this business direction, the release of Color TV-Game 6 and Color TV-Game 15 was a modest first step in the sense that the game ideas did not originate from Nintendo itself. A license to produce these pong-style games was obtained from Magnavox. Technical expertise needed to manufacture these machines was obtained through a partnership with Mitsubishi Electronic.
Nintendo Color TV-Game 6 (1977)
Clearly sprouting from the TV tennis family-tree, which started with the Magnavox Odyssey and was turned into a household name ("Pong") by Atari, Color TV-Game 6 (カラー テレビゲーム 6) is a dedicated game console that offers six variants on the bat-a-light-blip-from-left-to-right-and-back-again type of game play.
Though not very original, the Color TV-Game 6 provided exactly what the public was looking for at the time, in a quality package, for the right price.
(Video uploaded by YouTube user mushmaster)
The retail price of ¥9,800 for the Color TV-Game 6 was very appealing, as all competitive offers at the time sported much higher price tags. This was a big factor in the success of Color TV-Game 6.
The first video game to bear the Nintendo brand name
The Color TV-Game 6 actually offers only three different game types. But each of these can be played in two different modes, which brings the total to six games.
The three game types are hockey (ホッケー), volley ball (バレーボール) and tennis (テニス). Each of these can be played in singles mode (シングルス) or doubles mode (ダブルズ).
The six game variants are described on the side of the box
All six games are two player games. Each player operates one of the two controllers (analog paddles) attached to the Color TV-Game 6. In singles mode each player controls a single "racket" on screen. In doubles mode each player controls two "rackets" simultaneously.
Throughout 1977, four versions of the Color TV-Game 6 were released, although there are only two truly different variants. Furthermore, one isn't an actual Nintendo product, but was released by Sharp as we will see below.
The bottom game is the CTG-6S, others are CTG-6V variants
The first release of Color TV-Game 6 can be recognized by its off-white color housing and box. It listens to the name CTG-6S.
The original Color TV-Game 6 (CTG-6S)
Manual of the Color TV-Game 6 version CTG-6S
Soon after the release of the CTG-6S, an improved version of the Color TV-Game 6 named CTG-6V was released. This second version was produced in much larger quantities, and, as a result, is much more common today.
Manual of the Color TV-Game 6 version CTG-6V
The game-play of CTG-6S and CTG-6V versions is identical, but there are some physical differences between the two machines. The most obvious is the color of the housing; the off-white being replaced by bright orange.
The second release of Color TV-Game 6 (CTG-6V)
If we place them side-by-side, it becomes also immediately apparent that the controllers of the CTG-6V are bigger than those of its predecessor, offering a better grip.
Another improvement related to the controllers is the introduction of a "stop" at the top and the bottom of the screen. The controller of the original CTG-6S could be turned endlessly; when the "racket" disappeared at the bottom or top of the screen, it would reappear at the other end, making it hard to position the racket during frantic play. With the new CTG-6V, the "racket" comes to a stop at the top and bottom borders of the screen, providing a more realistic interpretation of the tennis game.
Color TV-Game 6 CTG-6S (bottom) and CTG-6V (top)
Another difference between CTG-6S and CTG-6V is the way the system can be powered. The machines require 9V DC, which can be provided by placing 6 C cells in the battery compartment at the bottom.
"Feed me" this battery compartment says
For the CTG-6S, using batteries is the only option. The CTG-6V introduces the option to use a power adapter instead, for which a connector is included in the back. A dedicated power adapter (model CTGA-901A) was separately available for ¥1,500. This adapter was compatible with all other Color TV-Games.
A sight that makes the Energizer Bunnies cry: the power adapter connector of the CTG-6V
The Color TV-Game 6 does not feature the Nintendo name on its housing, using "Color TV-Game" as its brand identify. The manual and box include the Nintendo name, but not very prominent.
Besides the six game variants, the game-play can be influenced with some additional settings that change the size of the players "rackets" as well as the level of acceleration of the ball when it hits the "racket".
The switches used to select game type, game mode and some other options
The four switches at the top of the control panel are: racket size of left and right player (up is small, down is big), speed after bounce on the racket (up is high, down is low) and game mode selection (up is doubles, down is singles).
The three switches at the bottom of the control panel are: power switch (up is on, down is off), reset button and game type selection (volley ball, tennis, hockey).
Maybe they work for some people, but I find the diagrams in the manual explaining the various types of game-play quite confusing. They remind me of text books on nuclear physics.
Game-play explained or Feynman diagrams?
A special version of the Color TV-Game 6 was produced for food company House Foods to promote their instant noodles product House Shanmen (ハウスシャンメン). Instant noodles? Yes, instant noodles.
The rare House Shanmen version of Color TV-Game 6
The House Shanmen version of Color TV-Game 6 is identical to the regular CTG-6V, except for the metal name plate on the top, which in this case shows the noodles brand name.
A closer look at the rare House Shanmen version of the Color TV-Game 6
I reckon a lot of instant noodles had to be consumed before one became eligible for this machine. They are quite rare and difficult to find these days.
"Thank you for buying this many noodles"
Another interesting variant of the Color TV-Game 6 are the versions licensed to Sharp. Sharp produced TVs and bought licenses for video game consoles to sell with their TV sets.
Sharp would continue to license Nintendo's subsequent systems: Famicom (Sharp Famicom Titler AN510 and 14C-C1F and 19C-C1F TVs), Famicom Disk System (Sharp Twin Famicom AN-500R, AN-500B, AN-505-BK and AN-505-RD) and Super Famicom (Sharp 14G-SF1 and 21G-SF1 TVs).
One of the two Sharp licensed versions of the Color TV-Game 6
As is the case for Nintendo's own model, there are two versions of the Sharp's licensed Color TV-Game 6. There is a version based on CTG-6S as well as one based on the CTG-6V. The Sharp product codes are, respectively, XG-106 and XG-106V. Both are identical to their Nintendo counterpart, except for the different color housing (which is a darker orange) and the Sharp branding on box and console. They also are simply called Color TV-Game, dropping the "6" from the name.
The manual of a Sharp version of Color TV-Game 6
The Color TV-Game 6 and Color TV-Game 15 were the first time people connected a Nintendo produced "box" to their TV set to play some games. We now know it wouldn't be the last time. Almost thirty-five years and multiple generations of ever improving, multi-million selling Nintendo video game consoles on, we can reflect on this moment as the beginning of something very, very big.
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Are the nintendo pong consoles for sale?
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Erik V March 4, 2012 at 9:03 PM
Hi Johny and Zane,
I do not have any of these consoles for sale, but you can track them down on the regular auction sites. They do pop-up every now and then on eBay, but are more frequently offered on the Japanse auction site of Yahoo (no real surprise, for items originally sold only in Japan).
Just check the following link.
You will need a Yahoo account to bid, but there are services out there that act as intermediary. Do a google search on proxy bidding.
fredolococo March 27, 2012 at 1:23 PM
Hello Erik V !
I search a Sharp XG-106V on yahoo, but no found !
This color tv game is very rare ?
Thank you, best regards from France
Erik V March 29, 2012 at 12:37 AM
Hi Fred. Yes, the Sharp XG-106V indeed is quite rare. You may need to search for a while (possibly a few months) before you find one.
FredJ December 13, 2012 at 12:11 AM
There is a Sharp XG-106 too. It doesn't have the power supply connector.
Erik V December 13, 2012 at 12:29 AM
That's interesting. Was not aware of hat before. Do you have a picture of it?
Oh wait. I just spotted the picture of the Sharp TV Game 6 in the "History of Nintendo, vol 1" book is of a XG-106 (indeed, without a "V"). Had not spotted that before! Thanks. Will update he post with this information.
FredJ December 15, 2012 at 6:50 PM
Glad you liked it. :)
I do have a picture, in fact I own one. http://img.tradera.com/images/588/156088588_1.jpg
I am looking for a Japanese VCR so I can play it here in Europe....
Erik V December 22, 2012 at 2:35 PM
Just updated the post with your info. Thanks again fro pointing this out. Now I will have to find one myself! :-)
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My Darling Clementine is a 1946 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Henry Fonda as Wyatt Earp during the period leading up to the gunfight at the OK Corral. The ensemble cast also features Victor Mature (as Doc Holliday), Linda Darnell, Walter Brennan, Tim Holt, Cathy Downs and Ward Bond.
In 1882 (in reality, the gunfight at the O.K. Corral happened on October 26, 1881), Wyatt, Morgan, Virgil, and James Earp are driving cattle to California when they cross Old Man Clanton. When they learn about the nearby boom town of Tombstone, the older brothers ride in, leaving the youngest brother James to watch over the cattle. The Earps soon learn that Tombstone is a lawless town without a marshal. Wyatt is the only man in the town willing to face the drunk Indian shooting at the townspeople. When they return to their camp, they find the cattle rustled and James murdered.
Seeking to avenge his brother’s murder, Wyatt returns to Tombstone. To identify the perpetrator, he takes the open position of town marshal and meets with Doc Holliday and the Clanton gang several times. During this time, Clementine Carter, Doc’s ex-love interest from his hometown of Boston, arrives in town on the stagecoach, having searched for him for some time, and is given a room at the same hotel where both Wyatt and Doc Holliday are residing.
Chihuahua, a hot-tempered woman who loves Doc, sings in the local saloon. Doc tells Clementine to return to Boston, or he will leave Tombstone. Clementine stays, so Doc leaves, much to the displeasure of Chihuahua, who starts an argument with Clementine. Wyatt walks in on the two and breaks up the women. Chihuahua then reveals a silver cross that belonged to James Earp. She claims Doc gave it to her.
Wyatt chases down Doc, who is headed for Tucson, and shoots a pistol out of Doc’s hands. The two return to Tombstone, where after being questioned, Chihuahua reveals that the silver cross was actually given to her by Billy Clanton. Billy shoots Chihuahua through a window and takes off on horseback, but is shot by Wyatt. Billy keeps riding, so Virgil pursues him to the Clanton homestead, where Billy dies of his wounds. Old Man Clanton then kills Virgil.
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Wyatt and Morgan resign as law enforcers. Morgan heads out in a horse and buggy. Wyatt speaks with Clementine one last time, telling her if he is ever this way again, he will look her up at the school house. Mounting his horse, Wyatt says, “Ma’am, I sure like that name…Clementine,” and rides off after his brother.
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Please excuse my own voice initially to introduce these materials in the Michael Butterworth/Savoy Press Exhibit. The voice of Butterworth himself is on all the caption cards in the cases. It is a clever and witty voice that I characterize further below. But first, the radical nature of the materials, their European origins, and why we at Kent State should notice.
All American history is partially a product of invasions from Europe. I arrived at Kent to teach in the middle of the sixties, roughly the same moment as the Beatles invasion. I knew a lot about the radical and diabolic Lord Byron, about the French Revolution. But I was not prepared to be told by my friends about the Cleveland poet d.a. levy, who died defiantly in 1968. In fact, the country, the University all matured rapidly in the psychedelic sixties that climaxed for us at May 1970. Now 45 years later, I have completed my tenure of teaching—some radical and some conventional literature. I am fortunate to be able to introduce this bookish exhibit and “invasion” again of European radicalism and shall describe it in much more detail at my March 4 talk here. In the meantime, read carefully the captions by Butterworth in the cases. His voice is the voice of Swift, the voice of the French barricades in radical Paris, and of the diabolical Lord Byron (Lord Horror). He is clever, intense, informal; and this is solid literary history about banned books and about radical publishing. I think all of this helps to appreciate our very American history of radicalism inspired by our European roots—by this mixed and croaking speciation.
As we know, the frog is able to live underwater but is able, also, to sparkle in the sun. We hope for such amphibian complexity in what is exhibited here.
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Philipp with British MP David Morris
Here is the Facebook page for Philip’s organization, Together We Can for Syria.
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Democracy goes grassroots in Montreal
North America’s longest student strike in Canada’s French-speaking province Quebec is leading to new and interesting social developments in the region. After Premiere Jean Charest passed an emergency law to quell protests in May 2012, communities defied this law by holding nightly “casseroles” marches – a phenomenon that is now spreading across Canada. The community-based activity is spawning neighborhood assemblies throughout Montreal, where residents are discussing ways to combat everything from social service cutbacks to police repression. Jerome Charaoui, an IT consultant at a Montreal college, got together with some friends to start the Hochelaga-Maisonneuve area assembly.
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Jerome talks with assembly members
Agenda order for Hochelaga-Maisonneuve Neighborhood Assembly
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Russian activist changes Moscow by counting cars
Maksim Kats is not your typical politician. The 27-year-old was elected as deputy in the local council in Moscow and has since started counting parked cars in the city with a group of volunteers. They’re collecting hard statistics to show that the city is not friendly to pedestrians – and hopefully change the cityscape in small ways.
DW’s Geert Groot Koerkamp spoke with Maksim and the volunteers helping him in Tverskaya, Moscow’s main shopping street. They have been counting cars and people in several locations in the city, including the district where Maksim is a deputy in the local council. At the same time, they also record other things that are not right, like illegal street advertisements.
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Maksim Kats at an opposition rally
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Young global leaders talk education
What will life be like in the year 2030? How can we help shape tomorrow’s world today? This is the question that Young Global Leaders from the world of politics, science, business and the arts are turning their attention to.
They are all under the age of 40 and all looking for solutions for the future. The “Young Global Leaders” initiative was set up by the founder and President of the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab. The five-part series looks at the issues of health, the environment, employment and the fight against poverty. In this episode, we meet three people who talk to us about their ideas on education: Subhash Dinar, senior vice-president of the international IT firm Infosys; Jimmy Whales, founder of Wikepedia; and Peter Bisanz, a film director from the US.
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Can a Math Curriculum Audit Improve Student Achievement in Math?
By Jal Mehta on October 17, 2016 9:09 AM | No comments
This post is by Jake Fishbein, Director of Instruction, Capital City Public Charter School
"I don't know what it's going to take!" A colleague told me as she we reviewed PARCC assessment data this past summer. "My teachers are working their hearts out. My students are engaged. Why can't we break through the low ceiling when it comes to our math performance?" As a school leader, she was clearly frustrated that despite years of hard and thoughtful work, the needle wasn't moving.
Capital City Public Charter School, a diverse title-one school in the District of Columbia has been a member of the EL Education Network since our founding in 2000. We serve a student body of over 900 students ranging from pre-K3 to 12 grade. Our school strongly emphasizes project-based learning, arts integration and character development. We have also been working to unpack the Common Core State Standards for several years. The depth and rigor of the Common Core align well with our Learning Expeditions, semester long, interdisciplinary studies of real-world topics. We have developed benchmark assessments to measure student performance on key math standards. We thought we had made all the right moves. Then the results came back.
While our students had made sizable gains in English Language Arts, mathematics was still moving at a snail's pace. Of course, our initial results didn't tell the whole story. While it was helpful to dig into the specific student results, grade-levels and cohorts, the "Aha" moment came when we looked at the less familiar PARCC's mathematics sub-claims. These refer to ways that students' mathematical abilities are weighed in the actual PARCC assessment, including:
1. Major Content (26-31 points of the test): "The student solves problems involving the Major Content for her grade/course with connections to the Standards for Mathematical Practice."
2. Additional and Supporting Content (9-14 points of the test): "The student solves problems involving the Additional and Supporting Content for her grade/course with connections to the Standards for Mathematical Practice."
3. Reasoning (14 points of the test): "The student expresses grade/course-level appropriate mathematical reasoning by constructing viable arguments, critiquing the reasoning of others, and/or attending to precision when making mathematical statements."
4. Modeling (12 points of the test): "The student solves real-world problems with a degree of difficulty appropriate to the grade/course by applying knowledge and skills articulated in the standards for the current grade/course (or for more complex problems, knowledge and skills articulated in the standards for previous grades/courses), engaging particularly in the Modeling practice, and where helpful making sense of problems and persevering to solve them (MP. 1), reasoning abstractly and quantitatively (MP. 2), using appropriate tools strategically (MP.5), looking for and making use of structure (MP.7), and/or looking for and expressing regularity in repeated reasoning (MP.8)."
At first, this information seemed complicated and removed from the essential practices of teaching and learning. Then, at a workshop sponsored by Washington DC's State Superintendent of Education, Hanseul Kang, my colleagues and I dove deeply into the claims and how they related to PARCC. We learned that each claim held a different point value in regards to PARCC. A light bulb flashed and a question formed: "How much time do our teachers spend on Major Content vs. Additional and Supporting Content?"
The question led me to lock myself in my office with our 6th grade math curriculum. The 25-page document included an overarching philosophy, standards, dates, instructional practice, assessments, notes for scaffolding, some ambiguous information about guest speakers and field trips, etc. I got to work with a handy whiteboard and dry erase marker. My first goal was to isolate the standards and time spent on them. After making a timeline for the year, I blocked off chunks of time that corresponded with specific standards. I colored coded the Major Content standards red and the Additional and Supporting Content standards green. I stood back.
We had a very green curriculum. Approximately 60% of the year was focused on Additional and Supporting Content. In fact, much of the red appeared after the PARCC had been administered. For example, in the two months preceding PARCC, the class focused on geometry and statistics standards which are considered "Additional Content." I also noted several major content areas were not included at all in the weeks leading up to PARCC. Our curriculum, while based upon the Common Core standards, was not aligned to the weight given to the standards. We were going to need a complete review of every grade from third through eighth. But how?
I showed my findings to our instructional coaches. I knew that for this information to matter, it would need to be unpacked with our teachers and curriculum coaching staff. To deepen our teachers' understanding of the standards and simultaneously revise curriculum maps, we asked our math teams to review and audit their own curriculum maps using the document created by Student Achievement Partners that differentiates Major and Additional Content area, and the spreadsheet that simplified and coded our standards in a simple timeline. When the audits were in, it was clear that Major Content was not getting its fair share of attention. With this information in hand, teachers got to workadjusting their curriculum maps to emphasize the major content throughout the year, while ensuring that additional and supporting content still added continuity and variety. Our teachers would continue to emphasize the critical thinking that lifted up Reasoning and Modeling as a strength, but they would re-emphasize the Major Content subclaims, balancing our students' math diet.
Now it is October. There are many months until PARCC so we cannot yet see the outcome of our collective work. Through this process, however, we have learned a few things. First, not all standards are made equal. A quality curriculum map is about applying the right amount of leverage in the the right places. The Student Achievement Partners' documents are a tremendous resource in taking the guess work out of which standards to spend more energy on throughout the year. Second, curriculum maps are great for guiding instruction but a nightmare as auditing documents. Developing a one-page overview that focused on time, standard and sub-claim allowed us to keep our attention focused. Third ,our collaborative approach, inspired by that first "aha" data moment, gave us shared accountability for focusing students on the standards most likely to lead them to success in college and careers. By strategically shifting our instruction we hope we'll finally raise the bar for our math scores.
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Comelec files motion for reconsideration on GMAs temporary liberty
MANILA, July 26 — The Commission on Election filed Thursday a motion for reconsideration before the Pasay City Regional Trial Court which allowed former President Gloria Arroyo to post bail.
The bail was in connection with the electoral sabotage charge filed against her in connection with alleged irregularities in the 2007 senatorial elections.
At 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Comelec representatives went to sala of Judge Jesus Mupas of the Pasay RTC Branch 112 to file their 17-page motion for reconsideration signed by Atty. Esmeralda Ladra, a Comelec lawyer.
The Comelec requested a hearing on July 30 to discuss their motion for reconsideration to revoke the temporary liberty of the former president.
On Wednesday, Mupas, who allowed Arroyo to post bail, faulted the prosecution, saying they failed to provide evidence showing that Arroyo conspired with her co-accused in the case.
Mupas said in his seven-page ruling: The only evidence presented by the prosecution that will link accused Arroyo to the alleged conspiracy is the testimony of Engr. Norie Unas whose credibility is seen by the Court to be tainted with doubt.
Unsupported by other evidence to corroborate such testimony, the same could not be given such weight and probative value that will be sufficient to establish a strong evidence of guilt on the part of accused Arroyo.
Accordingly, accused Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is allowed to post bail for her provisional liberty in the amount of P1 million.
Arroyo, released from hospital detention at the Veterans Memorial Medical Center, then headed to her home at La Vista in Quezon City.
The 65-year old Arroyo had been detained at the VMMC since late last year after Mupas issued a warrant for her arrest and ordered her transfer to the government-run hospital from the St. Luke's Medical Center in Taguig City. (PNA)
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REVIEW | Control Point by Myke Cole
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Military Fantasy has been a staple of genre for decades. The Black Company, Malazan, Tchaikovsky's Shadows of the Apt, and the Warhammer universe are some good examples, but none that I'm familiar with tackle the military in the present times. Contemporary Military Fantasy is something that we've clearly been lacking and Myke Cole's Control Point hopes to fill that void though it often has the feel of an Urban Fantasy even though much of the action takes place elsewhere. Given Cole's long military experience with 3 tours of Iraq he does have a unique experience to fuel the story.
Cole's series opener provides deep glimpses of some of the harsh realities and amazing highs capable in a military life even while mincing in some geek humor to take the edge off. Magic has seeped back into the normal world giving abilities to certain people. The world knows magic exists and all those capable of it in the United States are conscripted into the military except for a few people adept in the forbidden classes of magic. Those are silenced less they become the monsters humanity has always feared. The legal schools include the basic elements of those that can summon storms, move the earth, control fire, and command water at will. Illegal ones include those that can animate the dead and create portals to anywhere at will. This sets up a class system that is easy to hate and turns magic users into little more than drones. At least those that acquiesce to authority.
I ended up reading the first 2 chapters of Control Point 3 times before finally getting into the style as the first chapters can be difficult for those who abhor cold blooded killings of young people. That's exactly the choice that Oscar Britton faces in the opening pages. To do his job he must kill a teenager who has magic that she cannot be allowed to let loose. She's a Selfer who doesn't worry about the greater good. At least that is how the government characterizes Selfers.
After that mission Britton is faced with an even tougher choice. He manifests abilities in one of the prohibited schools of magic and things take a turn as he runs. The biggest weakness of the novel is Oscar. The world is very compelling, the politics, the magic, and the different views on the same issues (magic). But Oscar just goes too much back and forth over what he wants to do, what he feels his duty is, and what he believes in. He fights himself too much. He is a military man so why turn away from that when it is what he loves? At points he acts totally for himself and never really accepts that certain events were totally his fault. Granted he isn't put in a good place and left with many decisions so perhaps this fault is going too much into his head in the narrative. But when the chips are down Britton delivers.
Even with the weakness of Oscar I still ended up liking him. Control Point is at its best when the action happens, which is really quite often. Britton is flung from one life harrowing mission to another within pages. The magic is very impressive, especially when a skilled user is letting their full abilities loose. The sequencing of battles is particularly vivid. Picture those with the abilities from Avatar: The Last Airbender in modern combat situations from everything to a search a destroy mission in a sewer to an all-out battle on the field.
There are a lot of aspects I wish were explored more such as China being a country where magic users are free to live a semi normal life along with the magical plane that is only sparsely discussed. Also, I'd like to know a bit more about how the common people view those with latent abilities besides awe and fear.
Control Point is a solid, action packed debut with a few shaky parts that has a lot of appeal to it. By the end Cole more than found his footing and left me with high hopes for the continuation of the Shadow Ops series. I give Control Point 3.5 out of 5 Hats. The sequel Fortress Frontier should be out in February 2013, which I plan on checking out.
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Paul Weimer said...
My review hit similar points to yours, I think, especially WRT Oscar.
I had a lot of trouble with the arc of the protagonist and the somewhat generic alternate world. There was enough there that I would try the next one and hope for more of a payoff.
Mad Hatter Review said...
I think he's got a good lead on what's going on. I'm actually interested if the next novel with show things from another perspective in addition to Oscar.
Kevin B said...
Oscar really got on my nerves, almost to the point that it completely ruined the book for me. As it stands it was only ruined partially.
I just can't get past the fact that someone who is supposed to be such an accomplished career soldier and officer keeps making the dumbest possible decisions each and every time.
I doubt I'll read the next one.
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So Aeroflot did something distinctly un-Soviet: it turned increasingly to Western marketing techniques. Techniques that included a jingle sung by none other than Eduard Khil, Mr. Trololo himself.
Although advertising, according to the traditional Soviet view, was a parasitic drain on the economy, it was not unheard of in the USSR. Certain publications and broadcasters began accepting advertising as early as the 1940s.3 In the 1960s, stability and rising living standards in the USSR had fostered the development of a growing consumer culture. By the end of the decade, Aeroflot could claim to fly a quarter of the Soviet population every year — more than twice as many people as the largest U.S. carrier, United.4
Even as consumers were beginning to expect more at home, Aeroflot was increasingly looking abroad. In 1968, Aeroflot began direct flights to New York with service to an international standard aboard modern Ilyushin-62 jets; passengers aboard those early flights were impressed by the comfort of the seats, the decor of the planes, and the attractiveness of the stewardesses.5 In Western media, the airline advertised not only service to the USSR but also connections between Europe and the Far East.
Aeroflot was shifting its focus; no longer would it be merely an airborne bus service crossing 11 domestic timezones. It was becoming a true international airline.
Which is why this jingle is so fascinating. It comes from a flexidisc in a special Aeroflot issue of Krugozor magazine, a publication of the state-owned Melodiya record label. There are two songs on the disc. The first, “What Does a Pilot Need?” was sung by Eduard Khil several years before the performance that would one day make him Internet-famous:
Listen: Aeroflot: “What Does a Pilot Need?”
The second, titled “Aeroflot,” is included above.6
It’s interesting to compare these songs with the advertising of contemporary Western airlines. One key difference is distribution: while American jingles were used to back broadcast advertising, these songs were instead included on a commemorative recording that was perhaps given to passengers or otherwise sent to subscribers of the Krugozor magazine.
Stylistically, “What Does a Pilot Need?” sounds more like a folk song. But “Aeroflot” would not have sounded out of place as an American jingle of perhaps ten years earlier, in the late 1950s. The talent evident on the record is impressive: Yan Frenkel and Alexander Kolker were both prominent composers, and Khil was already a famous and award-winning singer. It would have been rare for an American jingle of the time to attract that level of talent. Still, it’s the content of the songs that provides the sharpest contrast.
Welcome aboard, comrade!
While 1960s-era Western advertising tended to focus on stewardesses, these songs are very much from the pilot’s perspective — notwithstanding the picture of the smiling stewardess waving a gloved hand on the album cover. The answer to the question in “What Does a Pilot Need?” is essentially that a pilot needs not to smash into the ground. The pilot’s happy as long as the number of landings equals the number of take-offs. But even Soviet passengers presumably expected more from the airline than a flight that doesn’t end in a fiery plane crash.
In “Aeroflot,” the airline promises to fly no matter how bad the weather or dark the night. From an airline with a reputation for cancellations and flights sometimes delayed for days, this is both reassuring and a little alarming. It sounds reckless to fly despite snow and ice. Certainly you would never hear an American airline admit that the skies can ever be anything other than blue.
Jingles can reveal much about an airline’s history and culture. These two songs were produced at a time of transition for Aeroflot. Though it suffered through some very bleak years following the collapse of the USSR, Aeroflot is now unquestionably a world-class airline with modern equipment and an excellent standard of service. After a process that really began in the 1960s, it is truly a global carrier.
(A very special thanks to my colleague Olga Vladova for the translation.)
Airline: Aeroflot Russian Airlines
Title: “Aeroflot”
Agency: Krugozor
Written by: Alexander Kolker (music), Kim Ryzhov (lyrics)
Hurry, we all hurry.
And what if it rains? Please don’t tell me, “the flight will be cancelled.”
We fly above clouds, we’re not afraid of bad weather. That’s our Aeroflot.
What if winter comes?
And it snows and gets icy. Please don’t tell me, “the flight will be cancelled.”
Even in winter, you should know that planes will never fail you. That’s our Aeroflot.
What if night comes and someone is waiting for us? Please don’t tell me, “the flight will be cancelled.”
Aeroflot will take you to any timezone at any time of day.
Title: “What Does a Pilot Need?”
Written by: Yan Frenkel (music), Igor Shaferan (lyrics)
Performed by: Eduard Khil
Once again pilots get ready for a flight
Sitting tightly in a circle
There is no railroad in the sky yet
That is known for certain, my friend.
What does a pilot need?
A pilot needs little, believe me, very little.
Only total order (peace and quiet).
Pilots only need the number of take-offs and landings to be the same.
Number of take-offs and number of landings.
Imagine, how is it to make this trip?
We’ve been here a thousand times.
Our life is never easy nor cloudless.
We’ll rest for an hour or two.
In a faraway airport.
The head pilot will check the weather.
And the plane will fly high again.
James Markham, “Is Advertising Important in the Soviet Economy?” Journal of Marketing 28 (1964): 31. [↩]
R.E.G. Davies, Airlines of the Jet Age (Washington: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press, 2011): 428. [↩]
P.J.C.F., “A Fast Flight on Aeroflot’s New Jet,” The New York Times (21 July 1968), XX5. In the 60s, rating the attractiveness of the stewardesses was a standard part of an airline review. [↩]
Unfortunately, it’s a little cut off because my copy of the disc is damaged. This recording is missing about 8 seconds of non-lexical vocables at the end. [↩]
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Alex Aldridge explores the growing number of paralegals providing legal services and how it may affect the future landscape of the profession.
Few realise it, but there are far more paralegals (over 300,000) in England and Wales than there are solicitors (approximately 125,000) and barristers (around 12,000) combined. And soon the ratio will be weighted even more greatly in favour of the traditional poor relation of the legal profession: according to recent research by Skills for Justice, the number of paralegals in this country is predicted to rise by 18 per cent over the next five years.
The drivers behind the likely increase are two-fold.
Firstly, there is the decline in the number of training contracts available, with the fall in training places - the Association of Graduate Recruiters’ (AGR) biannual survey found that graduate vacancies in law firms are expected to decrease by 16.5 per cent this year alone - sharper than the relatively moderate drop we have seen to date in Legal Practice Course (LPC) and Bar Professional Training Contract (BPTC) enrolments.
With less training contracts and pupillages to go around, more law school graduates will inevitably end up working as paralegals.
Secondly, learn-on-the-job legal apprenticeship schemes targeted at school-leavers - who begin as paralegals, with the option of going on to become lawyers via the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX) route - are growing in popularity following their successful adoption by several large law firms, including Kennedys, DWF and Gordons over the last couple of years.
Earlier this month the government formally unveiled plans to provide £1m in funding to create 750 higher legal apprenticeships. The scheme may only be just the beginning, with the Coalition said to be keen to make further investments to support an annual flow of legal apprentices.
More recognition, less constraints
Amid the rising paralegal numbers, an appetite is developing to better regulate a branch of the legal profession which to date has found itself subject to surprisingly few rules - and protections.
James O’Connell of the Institute of Paralegals says that paralegals ‘deserve recognition and support’. He gives the example of a well known builders merchant which has a team of paralegals trained in advocacy who, between them, have done over 400 County Court applications. ‘These men and women are hugely experienced advocates who have made more court appearances than most junior solicitors, yet there remains ambivalence towards them,’ O’Connell explains. ‘We often find that young lawyers have contradictory attitudes towards paralegals at a time when there are concerns about jobs in the legal profession.’
Looking ahead, O’Connell predicts that having non-lawyers involved in the running of law firms - one of the changes brought about by the Legal Services Act (LSA) - will cause a shift in culture that ‘gets rid of some of the old prejudices against non-solicitors’. O’Connell also reckons that the lower rates charged by paralegals will count in their favour as a growing incentive emerges to reward ‘those who can serve clients to the highest standard at the cheapest cost’.
O’Connell makes the point that many paralegals don’t want to qualify as legal executives ‘because the title doesn’t necessarily confer additional rights for those focusing on a particular area’, and is keen to see the role of paralegal become a respected career path in its own right. Still, for many wannabe lawyers, part of the attraction of becoming a paralegal is the possibility the role offers to qualify as a legal executive lawyer via the CILEX route.
Currently, the system works well for school leavers, who can become fully fledged legal executives after six years of study while they work. But it is less appealing for LPC graduates, who must re-trace some of the stages they have completed at law school if they chose to give up on getting a training contract and instead opt to qualify via the CILEX graduate fast track route.
A solution to this problem - and indeed to the wider issues of disconnection between elements of the current legal education and training framework - was proposed at the recent Legal Education and Training Review (LETR) symposium in Manchester by legal academics Julia Black and Linda Jotham, of the London School of Economics (LSE) and City University respectively. The pair suggested that qualifying as a lawyer should be contingent on reaching a certain generic competency (which would be set at level six of the government’s national competency framework), with the titles of solicitor, barrister, legal executive and paralegal relegated to secondary importance behind a new, clearly defined title of ‘English and Welsh lawyer’.
Under the plan, ‘English and Welsh lawyers’ could reach level six by whatever route they please, be it the traditional LLB/Graduate Diploma in Law (GDL) + LPC/BPTC, on the job apprenticeship training via the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives (CILEX), a combination of both, or some new method that would allow for the growth in online education options. Meanwhile, training contracts and pupillages would be dropped, replaced with modules that lawyers would be required to sit according to which areas they want to practise in.
Shifting sands
Of course, it is far from certain that such a proposal will be adopted - although there is a strong expectation that the LETR panel will recommend that legal training and education be made more flexible. Accordingly, looking ahead, an erosion of the boundaries between paralegals, legal executives, barristers and solicitors does seem likely, even if the exact method by which it happens has yet to be determined.
It is in the context of these shifting sands that the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) would like its decision to scrap the trainee solicitor minimum wage to be understood. How can a minimum salary be maintained for solicitors when other legal professionals performing equivalent duties are not similarly protected, the SRA argued back in May as a justification for scrapping the old rule. The body also claimed that by reducing the level trainees are required to be paid, LPC graduates will be better able to compete with those entering the profession via paralegal paths.
However, opponents of the decision to abandon the minimum wage have, similarly logically, argued that the SRA has let trainee solicitors down at a time when they most needed it to be strong and stand up for their rights. If trainees are paid at a lower rate, the JLD has asked, how will they pay back the hefty debts they have incurred as a result of their decision to go to law school?
Whatever rights and wrongs of that debate, it is of course now over. The question, then, turns to how current law students and junior solicitors can best position themselves to take advantage of a brave new world where some of the old certainties will soon no longer apply.
Firstly, in an environment where professional title-based snobbishness is becoming increasingly frowned upon, it will be important for young solicitors to be humble.
Influential people like Co-operative legal services chief Bob Labadie gives a hint at the type of mindset that will be required. ‘We are trying to build the whole picture, which means allowing people to join us at different stages - whether after their A-levels, degree or traditional postgraduate legal qualifications,’ he comments. ‘At senior level, our managers are mixed - lots are solicitors, some are not. And that will continue to be the case ever more going forward.’
At the same time, solicitors need to recognise that the university education and law school training they have will still count. The top City firms seem unlikely to embrace the paralegal apprenticeship model because their clients value so greatly the educational capital of their academically excellent lawyers.
The premium of a top class education will continue to apply throughout the profession, marking solicitors out as better equipped to handle more complex, high value work. Recent comments by Lord Sumption, who said that it was ‘very unfortunate’ that many young lawyers cannot speak a foreign language and have ‘much less in the way of general culture’ than their predecessors suggest that the very senior ranks of the law aren’t enamoured by the paralegal apprenticeship route.
Balancing these contradictory attitudes won’t be easy for the next generation of lawyers. The ones that thrive will be adept at matching the skills they have with an ever more varying professional landscape - not an easy task with 300,000 (and counting) paralegals breathing down your neck.
Alex Aldridge is the editor of Legal Cheek and a regular Guardian Law contributor.
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| 16 June, 2013 at 07:54
Reposted from Riot’s lolesports.com
The League Championship Series Summer Split begins Wednesday and the stakes are higher than ever as the top teams from NA and EU will earn a trip to the World Championship later this year. Take a look back at the standout teams and players from the Spring Split, Spring Playoff, Summer Promotion and All-Star event.
The GGU and Vulcun breakout
From beginning to end in the NA Spring Split, the standings stayed stratified between the longstanding pro teams and the new kids on the block. Despite their best efforts, Good Game University, Team MRN, compLexity, and Vulcun TechBargains couldn’t crack the glass ceiling that Curse, Dignitas, TSM Snapdragon, and CLG erected over them. Despite this, Good Game University and Vulcun TechBargains squeaked their way into the Spring Playoffs, leaving both teams with one last shot to assert themselves over the incumbents.
Vulcun and GGU were never favored to win the playoff, so their first round victories over CLG and Dignitas respectively shocked the community and forced the two heavyweight teams to fight for their livelihood in the Summer Promotion Tournament. Vulcun went on to snatch third place from Curse while GGU snagged second after falling to TSM in a taut five game series. Though a bottom four team didn’t climb to the tip-top of the mountain this past spring, it’s clear these teams are shaking up the standings.
The mid-season jolt from Bjergsen and WildTurtle
Bjergsen, Mid Lane for the Ninjas in Pyjamas (then named the Copenhagen Wolves), found himself disqualified for the first two weeks of the season because of age restrictions. One week after his return (and birthday), his Syndra picked up the first Pentakill of the EU LCS and led the Ninjas to their first victory. Though the Ninjas disappointed in the EU Spring Playoff and dropped into relegation, they fought their way back into the LCS and are now prepping for the Summer Split and a renewed shot at the World Championship.
WildTurtle made an equally immediate impact when he subbed in as TSM’s AD Carry in Week 6. He joined as a replacement, but a Pentakill in his first LCS game went a long way to making him a permanent fixture on the TSM roster. Previously, TSM had been unable to pass Dignitas and Curse and make their way to the top of the standings, but with WildTurtle, TSM transformed into the team to beat. Teammates reported to the press that WildTurtle’s hard-driving yet playful attitude contributed to team cohesion and successfully steered TSM towards more aggressive tactics. WildTurtle’s contribution speaks for itself and went a long way to TSM’s NA Spring Split title.
The Summer Promotion trans-Atlantic bloodbath
Following the Spring Split, the four weakest pro teams from each region dropped into relegation to fight for their professional lives against their region’s best amateur teams. When the curtain fell on the promotion tournament, only three of those eight professional teams remained, proving that the amateur scene wasn’t so amateur after all.
In NA, Cloud 9 trounced LCS veterans compLexity, while Velocity eSports won a five game slugfest against Team MRN to go pro. CLG and Dignitas both breezed past their opponents to rejoin the LCS. On the other side of the pond the LCS underwent a purge. Three of the four pro teams in the tournament failed to hold their place in the LCS. Team Alternate beat down the Ozone GIANTS to claim their spot, Against All Authority was taken out of the game by Sinners Never Sleep and the Dragonborns met their end squaring off against MeetYourMakers. Only Bjergsen’s Ninjas in Pyjamas made it through the EU relegation wringer.
Wickd-sOAZ 1:1 duel decides EU’s Top Lane All-Star
Fans across the globe voted their favorite players onto their respective region’s All-Star team. In most cases the winner was clear cut, but with the vote count between Fnatic’s sOAZ and EG’s Wickd split by one tenth of one percent, the battle for EU’s Top Lane couldn’t be settled so easily. Rather than have a split jury determine the outcome, Wickd took matters into his own hands and called sOAZ out on Twitter for a best-of-five 1:1 matchup to decide who would represent EU in Top Lane. Nearly 150,000 tuned into the stream as sOAZ clenched a trip to Shanghai by beating Wickd in five epic matchups.
sOAZ’s fairytale story continued in Shanghai. In the individual skills competition he beat out top lane heavyweights like NA’s Dyrus, China’s PDD and Korea’s Shy to prove himself the best top lane player in the world. It proved to be the one sweet spot in the EU All-Star team’s performance.
NA and EU burn out in Shanghai
It’s no secret that the Asian teams were expected to outperform their counterparts from NA and EU during the All-Star event. The prophecy proved true when, in both of their initial matchups, the western teams ended up quickly dispatched 0-2. NA fell to China and EU faltered against Korea.
This led to the matchup that many western fans were intrigued by: a head-on collision between NA and EU. The games proved as one-sided as the battles of the previous day. NA dominated the EU team, taking them to task 2-0 and leaving EU without a single victory in the All-Star event. NA’s win meant they moved forward in the tournament only to be efficiently dispensed by the Korean team the next day. The result leaves the European and North American teams racing against the clock to tune up and prep for renewed worldwide competition this fall. It goes without saying that the Asian teams won’t wait up for them.
Their journey to the World Championship begins on June 12 with the Summer Split. You can watch all the games right here on lolesports.com.
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Cotton, Peanut, and Soybean Response to Sublethal Rates of Dicamba, Glufosinate, and 2,4-D
Virginia A. Johnson, Loren R. Fisher, David L. Jordan, Keith E. Edmisten, Alexander M. Stewart, Alan C. York
Journal: Weed Technology / Volume 26 / Issue 2 / June 2012
Development and utilization of dicamba-, glufosinate-, and 2,4-D-resistant crop cultivars will potentially have a significant influence on weed management in the southern United States. However, off-site movement to adjacent nontolerant crops and other plants is a concern in many areas of eastern North Carolina and other portions of the southeastern United States, especially where sensitive crops are grown. Cotton, peanut, and soybean are not resistant to these herbicides, will most likely be grown in proximity, and applicators will need to consider potential adverse effects on nonresistant crops when these herbicides are used. Research was conducted with rates of glufosinate, dicamba, and 2,4-D designed to simulate drift on cotton, peanut, and soybean to determine effects on yield and quality and to test correlations of visual estimates of percent injury with crop yield and a range of growth and quality parameters. Experiments were conducted in North Carolina near Lewiston-Woodville and Rocky Mount during 2009 and 2010. Cotton and peanut (Lewiston-Woodville and Rocky Mount) and soybean (two separate fields [Rocky Mount] during each year were treated with dicamba and the amine formulation of 2,4-D at 1/2, 1/8, 1/32, 1/128, and 1/512 the manufacturer's suggested use rate of 280 g ai ha−1 and 540 g ai ha−1, respectively. Glufosinate was applied at rates equivalent to 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, and 1/32 the manufacturer's suggested use rate of 604 g ai ha−1. A wide range of visible injury was noted at both 1 and 2 wk after treatment (WAT) for all crops. Crop yield was reduced for most crops when herbicides were applied at the highest rate. Although correlations of injury 1 and 2 WAT with yield were significant (P ≤ 0.05), coefficients ranged from −0.25 to −0.50, −0.36 to −0.62, and −0.40 to −0.67 for injury 1 WAT vs. yield for cotton, peanut, and soybean, respectively. These respective crops had ranges of correlations of −0.17 to −0.43, −0.34 to −0.64, and −0.41 to −0.60 for injury 2 WAT. Results from these experiments will be used to emphasize the need for diligence in application of these herbicides in proximity to crops that are susceptible as well as the need to clean sprayers completely before spraying sensitive crops.
Yield and Physiological Response of Nontransgenic Cotton to Simulated Glyphosate Drift
Walter E. Thomas, Ian C. Burke, Bridget L. Robinson, Wendy A. Pline-Srnić, Keith L. Edmisten, Randy Wells, John W. Wilcut
Journal: Weed Technology / Volume 19 / Issue 1 / March 2005
Field studies were conducted in 2001 in Lewiston, NC, and in 2002 at Clayton and Lewiston, NC, to investigate the response of nontransgenic cotton to simulated glyphosate drift in a weed-free environment. Nontransgenic cotton variety ‘Fibermax 989’ was planted in a conventional seedbed at all locations. Glyphosate treatments were applied early postemergence (EPOST) at the four-leaf growth stage of cotton at 0, 8.7, 17.5, 35, 70, 140, 280, 560, and 1,120 g ai/ha and represent 0, 0.78, 1.55, 3.13, 6.25, 12.5, 25, 50, and 100% of the commercial use rate, respectively. Rates as low as 140 g/ha caused lint yield reductions depending on year and location. When averaged over all locations, lint yield reductions of 4, 49, 72, and 87% compared with nontreated cotton were observed with glyphosate rates of 140, 280, 560, and 1,120 g/ha, respectively. Visual injury and shikimic acid accumulation were evident at glyphosate rates greater or equal to 70 g/ha. Collectively, visual injury and shikimic acid accumulation at 7 d after EPOST treatment might be used as a diagnostic indicator to predict potential yield reductions from simulated glyphosate drift.
Glyphosate negatively affects pollen viability but not pollination and seed set in glyphosate-resistant corn
Walter E. Thomas, Wendy A. Pline-Srnić, Judith F. Thomas, Keith L. Edmisten, Randy Wells, John W. Wilcut
Journal: Weed Science / Volume 52 / Issue 5 / October 2004
Experiments were conducted in the North Carolina State University Phytotron greenhouse and field locations in Clayton, Rocky Mount, and Lewiston-Woodville, NC, in 2002 to determine the effect of glyphosate on pollen viability and seed set in glyphosate-resistant (GR) corn. Varieties representing both currently commercial GR corn events, GA21 and NK603, were used in phytotron and field studies. All glyphosate treatments were applied at 1.12 kg ai ha−1 at various growth stages. Regardless of hybrid, pollen viability was reduced in phytotron and field studies with glyphosate treatments applied at the V6 stage or later. Scanning electron microscopy of pollen from affected treatments showed distinct morphological alterations correlating with reduced pollen viability as determined by Alexander stain. Transmission electron microscopy showed pollen anatomy alterations including large vacuoles and lower starch accumulation with these same glyphosate treatments. Although pollen viability and pollen production were reduced in glyphosate treatments after V6, no effect on kernel set or yield was found among any of the reciprocal crosses in the phytotron or field studies. There were also no yield differences among any of the hand self-pollinated (nontreated male × nontreated female, etc.) crosses. Using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to examine CP4-5-enolpyruvlshikimate-3-phosphate synthase expression in DKC 64-10RR (NK603) at anthesis, we found the highest expression in pollen with progressively less in brace roots, ear leaf, anthers, roots, ovaries, silks, stem, flag leaf, and husk.
Glufosinate Does Not Affect Floral Morphology and Pollen Viability in Glufosinate-Resistant Cotton
Walter E. Thomas, Wendy A. Pline, John W. Wilcut, Keith L. Edmisten, Randy Wells, Ryan P. Viator, Mary D. Paulsgrove
Studies were conducted to determine whether glufosinate treatments to glufosinate-resistant cotton caused changes in floral morphology, pollen viability, and seed set. Four glufosinate treatments were included: (1) glufosinate applied postemergence over the top (POST) at the four-leaf stage, (2) glufosinate applied POST at the eight-leaf stage, (3) the first two treatments sequentially, and (4) a POST application at the four-leaf stage followed by (fb) a postemergence-directed stem application (PDS) at the eight-leaf stage. Glufosinate was consistently applied at 0.49 kg ai/ha. A nontreated control was included. Glufosinate treatments did not affect stigma height, length of the staminal column, or pollen viability. However, the distance from the top anther to the tip of the stigma was less in plants treated with an eight-leaf POST treatment than in nontreated plants, although this difference is not likely to influence pollen deposition because in both cases anthers reached above the stigma tip. Plants receiving four-leaf POST fb eight-leaf PDS treatment with glufosinate had eight seeds per boll less than nontreated plants; however, the more rigorous four-leaf POST fb eight-leaf POST treatment did not differ from the nontreated in seeds per boll.
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Co-receptor tropism and genetic characteristics of the V3 regions in variants of antiretroviral-naive HIV-1 infected subjects
J. L. Guo, Y. Yan, J. F. Zhang, J. M. Ji, Z. J. Ge, R. Ge, X. F. Zhang, H. H. Wang, Z. W. Chen, J. Y. Luo
Co-receptor tropism has been identified to correlate with HIV-1 transmission and the disease progression in patients. A molecular epidemiology investigation of co-receptor tropism is important for clinical practice and effective control of HIV-1. In this study, we investigated the co-receptor tropism on HIV-1 variants of 85 antiretroviral-naive patients with Geno2pheno algorithm at a false-positive rate of 10%. Our data showed that a majority of the subjects harboured the CCR5-tropic virus (81.2%, 69/85). No significant differences in gender, age, baseline CD4+ T-cell counts and transmission routes were observed between subjects infected with CXCR4-tropic or CCR5-tropic virus. The co-receptor tropism appeared to be associated with the virus genotype; a significantly more CXCR4-use was predicted in CRF01_AE infections whereas all CRF07_BC and CRF08_BC were predicted to use CCR5 co-receptor. Sequences analysis of V3 revealed a higher median net charge in the CXCR4 viruses over CCR5 viruses (4.0 vs. 3.0, P < 0.05). The predicted N-linked glycosylation site between amino acids 6 and 8 in the V3 region was conserved in CCR5 viruses, but not in CXCR4 viruses. Besides, variable crown motifs were observed in both CCR5 and CXCR4 viruses, of which the most prevalent motif GPGQ existed in both viral tropism and almost all genotypes identified in this study except subtype B. These findings may offer important implications for clinical practice and enhance our understanding of HIV-1 biology.
Optimisation and analysis of efficiency for contra-rotating propellers for high-altitude airships
J. Tang, X. Wang, D. Duan, W. Xie
Journal: The Aeronautical Journal / Volume 123 / Issue 1263 / May 2019
An improved variational optimization approach is established to optimize and analyse the propulsion efficiency of the high-altitude contra-rotating propellers for high-altitude airships based on the Vortex Lattice Lifting Line Method. The optimum radial circulation distribution, chord and pitch distribution are optimized under the maximum lift-to-drag ratio of aerofoils. To consider the effects of the actual Reynolds number and the Mach number of each aerofoil section, aerodynamics such as lift coefficient, drag coefficient and lift-to-ratio are obtained by interpolating a CFD database, which is established by numerical simulations under different Reynolds number, Mach number and angles-of-attack. The improved method is verified by validation cases on a high-altitude CRP using the three-dimensional steady Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes solver and moving reference frames technique. The optimization results of thrust, torque and efficiency for both the individual front/rear propeller and CRP are shown to agree reasonably well with the CFD results. Using the improved approach, the influence of blade numbers, diameter, rotation speeds, axial distance and torque ratio on the optimum efficiency of CRPs is illustrated in detail by conducting parametric studies.
Behavioural responses of piglets to different types of music
X. Li, J. N. Zhao, P. Zhao, X. Zhang, Y. J. Bi, J. H. Li, H. G. Liu, C. Wang, J. Bao
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 March 2019, pp. 1-8
Music or other background sounds are often played in barns as environmental enrichment for animals on farms or to mask sudden disruptive noises. Previous studies looking at the effects of this practice on non-human animal well-being and productivity have found contradictory results. However, there is still a lack of discussion on whether piglets have the ability to distinguish different types of music. In this study, we exposed piglets to different music conditions to investigate whether the piglets preferred certain music types, in which case those types would have the potential to be used as environmental enrichment. In total, 30 piglets were tested for music type preference to determine whether growing pigs respond differently to different types of music. We used music from two families of instruments (S: string, W: wind) and with two tempos (S: slow, 65 beats/min (bpm); F: fast, 200 bpm), providing four music-type combinations (SS: string-slow; SF: string-fast; WS: wind-slow; WF: wind-fast). The piglets were given a choice between two chambers, one with no music and the other with one of the four types of music, and their behaviour was observed. The results showed that SS and WF music significantly increased residence time (P<0.01) compared with the other music conditions. Compared with the control group (with no music), the different music conditions led to different behavioural responses, where SS music significantly increased lying (P<0.01) and exploration behaviour (P<0.01); SF music significantly increased tail-wagging behaviour (P<0.01); WS music significantly increased exploration (P<0.01); and WF music significantly increased walking, lying, standing and exploration (all P<0.01). The results also showed that musical instruments and tempo had little effect on most of the behaviours. Fast-tempo music significantly increased walking (P=0.02), standing (P<0.01) and tail wagging (P=0.04) compared with slow-tempo music. In conclusion, the results of this experiment show that piglets are more sensitive to tempo than to musical instruments in their response to musical stimulation and seem to prefer SS and WF music to the other two types. The results also suggest a need for further research on the effect of music types on animals.
Dietary alanyl-glutamine improves growth performance of weaned piglets through maintaining intestinal morphology and digestion–absorption function
T. D. Zou, C. X. Deng, Z. R. Wang, Y. L. Ye, J. M. You
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 February 2019, pp. 1-8
Alanyl-glutamine (Ala-Gln), a highly soluble and stable glutamine dipeptide, is known to improve gut integrity and function. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether dietary Ala-Gln supplementation could improve growth performance, intestinal development and digestive-absorption function in weaned piglets. A total of 100 purebred Yorkshire piglets weaned at 21 days of age were assigned randomly to four dietary treatment groups and fed a basal diet (control group) or a basal diet containing 0.15%, 0.30% and 0.45% Ala-Gln, respectively. Compared with the control group, piglets fed the Ala-Gln diets had higher average daily gain and lower feed : gain and diarrhea rate (P<0.05). Moreover, dietary Ala-Gln supplementation increased villous height and villous height : crypt depth ratio in duodenum and jejunum (P<0.05), as well as the activities of maltase and lysozyme in jejunum mucosa (P<0.05). In addition, a decrease in serum diamine oxidase activity and crypt depth in duodenum and jejunum was observed in piglets fed the Ala-Gln diets (P<0.05). Serum cytosolic phospholipase A2 (cPLA2) concentration and gene expression of cPLA2, Na+-dependent glucose transporter 1, glucose transporter 2 and peptide transporter 1 in jejunum were increased by feeding Ala-Gln diets relative to control diet (P<0.05). These results indicated that feeding Ala-Gln diet has beneficial effects on the growth performance of weaned piglets, which associated with maintaining intestinal morphology and digestive-absorption function.
Detection of quantitative trait loci for wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) heading and flowering date
C. H. Zhao, H. Sun, C. Liu, G. M. Yang, X. J. Liu, Y. P. Wang, F. X. Lv, C. Y. Wu, J. W. Xu, Y. Z. Wu, F. Cui
Journal: The Journal of Agricultural Science / Volume 157 / Issue 1 / January 2019
Heading date (HD) and flowering date (FD) are critical for yield potential and stability, so understanding their genetic foundation is of great significance in wheat breeding. Three related recombinant inbred line populations with a common female parent were developed to identify quantitative trait loci (QTL) for HD and FD in four environments. In total, 25 putative additive QTL and 20 pairwise epistatic effect QTL were detected in four environments. The additive QTL were distributed across 17 wheat chromosomes. Of these, QHd-1A, QHd-1D, QHd-2B, QHd-3B, QHd-4A, QHd-4B and QHd-6D were major and stable QTL for HD. QFd-1A, QFd-2B, QFd-4A and QFd-4B were major and stable QTL for FD. In addition, an epistatic interaction test showed that epistasis played important roles in controlling wheat HD and FD. Genetic relationships between HD/FD and five yield-related traits (YRTs) were characterized and ten QTL clusters (C1–C10) simultaneously controlling YRTs and HD/FD were identified. The present work laid a genetic foundation for improving yield potential in wheat molecular breeding programmes.
Different endosperm structures in wheat and corn affected in vitro rumen fermentation and nitrogen utilization of rice straw-based diet
N. N. Xu, D. M. Wang, B. Wang, J. K. Wang, J. X. Liu
Journal: animal / Volume 13 / Issue 8 / August 2019
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 December 2018, pp. 1607-1613
Starchy grain is usually supplemented to diets containing low-quality forage to provide sufficient energy for ruminant animals. Ruminal degradation of grain starch mainly depends on the hydrolysis of the endosperm, which may be variable among grain sources. This study was conducted to investigate the influence of endosperm structure of wheat and corn on in vitro rumen fermentation and nitrogen (N) utilization of rice straw. The 3×4 factorial design included three ratios of concentrate to forage (35:65, 50:50 and 65:35) and four ratios of wheat to corn starch (20:80, 40:60, 60:40 and 80:20). The endosperm structure was detected by scanning electronic microscopy and a confocal laser scanning microscopic. An in vitro gas test was performed to evaluate the rumen fermentation characteristics and N utilization. Starch granules were embedded in the starch–protein matrix in corn, but more granules were separated from the matrix in the wheat endosperm. With the increasing ratio of wheat, rate and extent of gas production, total volatile fatty acids, and ammonia N increased linearly (P<0.01), but microbial protein concentration decreased (quadratic, P<0.01), with the maximum value at a ratio of 40% wheat. The efficiency of N utilization decreased linearly (P<0.01). Rumen fermentation and N utilization were significantly affected by the concentrate-to-forage ratio (P<0.01). Significant interactions between the concentrate-to-forage ratio and the wheat-to-corn ratio were detected in total volatile fatty acids and the efficiency of N utilization (P<0.01). In summary, the starch–protein matrix and starch granules in the wheat and corn endosperm mixture play an important role in the regulation of rumen fermentation and N utilization under low-quality forage.
Post-exposure prophylaxis vaccination rate and risk factors of human rabies in mainland China: a meta-analysis
D. L. Wang, X. F. Zhang, H. Jin, X. Q. Cheng, C. X. Duan, X. C. Wang, C. J. Bao, M. H. Zhou, T. Ahmad
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 December 2018, e64
Rabies is one of the major public health problems in China, and the mortality rate of rabies remains the highest among all notifiable infectious diseases. A meta-analysis was conducted to investigate the post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP) vaccination rate and risk factors for human rabies in mainland China. The PubMed, Web of Science, Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure, Chinese Science and Technology Periodical and Wanfang databases were searched for articles on rabies vaccination status (published between 2007 and 2017). In total, 10 174 human rabies cases from 136 studies were included in this meta-analysis. Approximately 97.2% (95% confidence interval (CI) 95.1–98.7%) of rabies cases occurred in rural areas and 72.6% (95% CI 70.0–75.1%) occurred in farmers. Overall, the vaccination rate in the reported human rabies cases was 15.4% (95% CI 13.7–17.4%). However, among vaccinated individuals, 85.5% (95% CI 79.8%–83.4%) did not complete the vaccination regimen. In a subgroup analysis, the PEP vaccination rate in the eastern region (18.8%, 95% CI 15.9–22.1%) was higher than that in the western region (13.3%, 95% CI 11.1–15.8%) and this rate decreased after 2007. Approximately 68.9% (95% CI 63.6–73.8%) of rabies cases experienced category-III exposures, but their PEP vaccination rate was 27.0% (95% CI 14.4–44.9%) and only 6.1% (95% CI 4.4–8.4%) received rabies immunoglobulin. Together, these results suggested that the PEP vaccination rate among human rabies cases was low in mainland China. Therefore, standardised treatment and vaccination programs of dog bites need to be further strengthened, particularly in rural areas.
Human papillomaviruses 16 and 58 are distributed widely among women living in Shanghai, China, with high-grade, squamous intraepithelial lesions
J. Xu, Z. Xia, L. Wang, B. Yang, Y. Zhu, X. Zhu, L. Xu
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 November 2018, e42
The distribution of human papillomaviruses (HPVs) must be understood for the control and prevention of cervical cancer. Community-based Papanicolaou and HPV DNA tests were performed on 41 578 women. The prevalences of HPV genotypes 16, 18, 31, 33, 35, 39, 45, 51, 52, 56, 58, 59, 66 and 68 were assessed. In total, 10% women were infected/co-infected by these HPVs. The infection rate increased from 7.1% in women aged ⩽30 years to 10.4% in those aged 50–60 years, and then decreased slightly to 9.9% in those aged >60 years. The HPV 16 and 58 positivity rates were significantly higher among women with high-grade squamous intraepithelial lesions (HSILs) than among those with cervicitis/negativity for intraepithelial lesion or malignancy (NILM) or low-grade SILs (LSILs). The HPV 18, 52 and 68 infection rates were significantly lower in women with HSILs than in those with NILM or LSILs. The proportion of women infected by multiple HPV strains was higher among those with HSILs. The proportions of the five most common genotypes, HPV 16, 18, 33, 52 and 58, increased with the number of co-infecting strains. HPV 16 and 58 were the high-risk HPVs in the Shanghai community and should be the focus in HPV screening and vaccination.
Effects of dietary supplementation of guanidino acetic acid on growth performance, thigh meat quality and development of small intestine in Partridge-Shank broilers
Q. C. Ren, J. J. Xuan, X. C. Yan, Z. Z. Hu, F. Wang
The current experiment aimed at assessing the effects of dietary supplementation of guanidino acetic acid (GAA) on growth performance, thigh meat quality and development of small intestine in broilers. A total of 360 1-day-old female broiler chicks were distributed randomly to four groups of 90 birds each, and each group received GAA dosages of 0, 0.4, 0.8 and 1.2 g/kg of feed dry matter. During the whole experiment of 60 days, broilers had ad libitum access to water and feed and the feed intake was recorded daily. All broilers were weighed before and after the experiment, and 30 broilers of each group were selected randomly to slaughter at the end. Increasing dietary supplementation of GAA increased final live weight and daily body weight gain, gain-to-feed ratio, thigh muscle pH value and fibre diameter of broilers, but decreased daily feed intake, drip loss, cooking loss, shear force value, hardness, gumminess and chewiness of thigh meat. In addition, increasing supplementation of GAA quadratically increased duodenal, jejunal and ileal villus height and width and ratio of villus height to crypt depth, but decreased crypt depth. The results indicated that GAA as a feed additive may support better development of small intestine, thereby resulting in improvement of growth performance and meat quality of broilers.
LPAR5, GNAT3 and partial amino acid transporters messenger RNA expression patterns in digestive tracts, metabolic organs and muscle tissues of growing goats
X. Zhu, J. Jiao, C. Zhou, S. Tang, M. Wang, J. Kang, X. Han, Z. Tan
Sufficient amino acid (AA) transport is essential to ensure the normal physiological function and growth of growing animals. The processes of AA sensing and transport in humans and murine animals, but rarely in goats, have been arousing great interest recently. This study was conducted to investigate the messenger RNA expression patterns of lysophosphatidic acid receptor 5 (LPAR5), guanine nucleotide-binding protein α-transducing 3 (GNAT3) and important partial AA transporters in digestive tracts, metabolic organs and muscles of growing goats. The results showed that these genes were widely expressed in goats, and had different expression patterns. LPAR5, GNAT3, solute carrier (SLC38A2), SLC7A7, SLC7A1 and SLC3A1 were rarely expressed in the rumen, but were highly expressed in the abomasum and intestine which are the main sites of AA absorption. GNAT3, SLC38A1, SLC38A2, SLC6A19, SLC7A7 and SLC7A1 showed comparatively high expression in the pancreas and the vital digestive glands, and the relatively high expression of these nine genes were noted in the tibialis posterior, the active muscle in energy metabolism. The correlation analysis showed that there were certain positive correlation among most genes. The current results indicate that the AA sensing and transport occur extensively in the abomasum and small intestine, metabolic organs and muscle tissues of ruminants, and that related genes have tissue specificity.
Variability of vestibular aqueduct measurements among axial, single-oblique and double-oblique computed tomography images
Y Quan, X J Gao, J Liu, R Z Gong, Q Wang, H Liang, J L Fu, Q Cheng
Journal: The Journal of Laryngology & Otology / Volume 132 / Issue 10 / October 2018
To investigate the morphology and dimensions of the vestibular aqueduct on axial, single-oblique and double-oblique computed tomography images.
The computed tomography temporal bone scans of 112 patients were retrospectively evaluated. Midpoint and opercular measurements were performed using axial, single-oblique and double-oblique images. Morphometric analyses were also conducted. The vestibular aqueduct sizes on axial, single-oblique and double-oblique images were compared.
At the midpoint, the mean (± standard deviation) vestibular aqueduct measured 0.61 ± 0.23 mm, 0.74 ± 0.27 mm and 0.82 ± 0.38 mm on axial, single-oblique and double-oblique images, respectively; at the operculum, the vestibular aqueduct measured 0.91 ± 0.30 mm, 1.11 ± 0.45 mm and 1.66 ± 1.07 mm on the respective images. The co-efficients of variation of the vestibular aqueduct measured at the midpoint were 37.4 per cent, 36.5 per cent and 47.5 per cent on axial, single-oblique and double-oblique images, respectively; at the operculum, the measurements were 33.0 per cent, 40.5 per cent and 64.5 per cent. Regarding morphology, the vestibular aqueduct was fissured (33.5 per cent), tubular (64.3 per cent) or invisible (2.2 per cent).
The morphology and dimensions of the vestibular aqueduct were highly variable among axial, single-oblique and double-oblique images.
Variation in the ovine keratin-associated protein 15-1 gene affects wool yield
W. Li, H. Gong, H. Zhou, J. Wang, X. Liu, S. Li, Y. Luo, J. G. H. Hickford
Journal: The Journal of Agricultural Science / Volume 156 / Issue 7 / September 2018
Keratin-associated proteins (KAPs) are constituents of wool and hair fibres and are believed to play an important role in determining the characteristics of the fibres. In the current study, a polymerase chain reaction-single stranded conformational polymorphism (PCR-SSCP) approach was used to screen for variation in the ovine KAP15-1 gene (KRTAP15-1). Four PCR-SSCP banding patterns, representing four different variants (named A to D), were detected. Four single nucleotide polymorphisms were found within the coding region and three of these were non-synonymous. The effect of this genetic variation on wool traits was investigated in 396 Merino × Southdown-cross sheep. Of the three variants found in these sheep (A, B and C), the presence of B was found to be associated with decreased wool yield, while C was associated with increased wool yield and decreased fibre diameter standard deviation. Sheep of genotype AC had a higher wool yield than those of genotype AA or AB.
Challenges and Opportunities with Highly Brilliant X-ray Sources for multi-Modal in-Situ and Operando Characterization of Solar Cells
M. E. Stuckelberger, T. Nietzold, B. M. West, T. Walker, C. Ossig, M. Kahnt, F. Wittwer, J. Deng, J. M. Maser, B. Lai, Z. Cai, V. Rose, A. Ulvestad, M. V. Holt, S. Hruszkewycz, J. J. Dynes, J. Wang, D. Salomon, R. Tucoulou, X. Huang, H. Yan, E. Nazaretski, Y. S. Chu, C. G. Schroer, M. I. Bertoni
Early intervention with faecal microbiota transplantation: an effective means to improve growth performance and the intestinal development of suckling piglets
C. S. Cheng, H. K. Wei, P. Wang, H. C. Yu, X. M. Zhang, S. W. Jiang, J. Peng
Recent studies indicate that early postnatal period is a critical window for gut microbiota manipulation to optimise the immunity and body growth. This study investigated the effects of maternal faecal microbiota orally administered to neonatal piglets after birth on growth performance, selected microbial populations, intestinal permeability and the development of intestinal mucosal immune system. In total, 12 litters of crossbred newborn piglets were selected in this study. Litter size was standardised to 10 piglets. On day 1, 10 piglets in each litter were randomly allotted to the faecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) and control groups. Piglets in the FMT group were orally administrated with 2ml faecal suspension of their nursing sow per day from the age of 1 to 3 days; piglets in the control group were treated with the same dose of a placebo (0.1M potassium phosphate buffer containing 10% glycerol (vol/vol)) inoculant. The experiment lasted 21 days. On days 7, 14 and 21, plasma and faecal samples were collected for the analysis of growth-related hormones and cytokines in plasma and lipocalin-2, secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA), selected microbiota and short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) in faeces. Faecal microbiota transplantation increased the average daily gain of piglets during week 3 and the whole experiment period. Compared with the control group, the FMT group had increased concentrations of plasma growth hormone and IGF-1 on days 14 and 21. Faecal microbiota transplantation also reduced the incidence of diarrhoea during weeks 1 and 3 and plasma concentrations of zonulin, endotoxin and diamine oxidase activities in piglets on days 7 and 14. The populations of Lactobacillus spp. and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii and the concentrations of faecal and plasma acetate, butyrate and total SCFAs in FMT group were higher than those in the control group on day 21. Moreover, the FMT piglets have higher concentrations of plasma transforming growth factor-β and immunoglobulin G, and faecal sIgA than the control piglets on day 21. These findings indicate that early intervention with maternal faecal microbiota improves growth performance, decreases intestinal permeability, stimulates sIgA secretion, and modulates gut microbiota composition and metabolism in suckling piglets.
A novel miRNA, miR-13664, targets CpCYP314A1 to regulate deltamethrin resistance in Culex pipiens pallens
X. H. Sun, N. Xu, Y. Xu, D. Zhou, Y. Sun, W. J. Wang, L. Ma, C. L. Zhu, B. Shen
Journal: Parasitology / Volume 146 / Issue 2 / February 2019
Extensive insecticide use has led to the resistance of mosquitoes to these insecticides, posing a major barrier to mosquito control. Previous Solexa high-throughput sequencing of Culex pipiens pallens in the laboratory has revealed that the abundance of a novel microRNA (miRNA), miR-13664, was higher in a deltamethrin-sensitive (DS) strain than a deltamethrin-resistant (DR) strain. Real-time quantitative PCR revealed that the miR-13664 transcript level was lower in the DR strain than in the DS strain. MiR-13664 oversupply in the DR strain increased the susceptibility of these mosquitoes to deltamethrin, whereas inhibition of miR-13664 made the DS strain more resistant to deltamethrin. Results of bioinformatic analysis, quantitative reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction, luciferase assay and miR mimic/inhibitor microinjection revealed CpCYP314A1 to be a target of miR-13664. In addition, downregulation of CpCYP314A1 expression in the DR strain reduced the resistance of mosquitoes to deltamethrin. Taken together, our results indicate that miR-13664 could regulate deltamethrin resistance by interacting with CpCYP314A1, providing new insights into mosquito resistance mechanisms.
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“Driving out waste is something that you never stop working on.”
First Standard-
ize, Ten Improve
Maag said that early on Mortenson developed standard work instructions for all of the work it does building a wind farm but that is only the frst step. Once the standard is in place, Mortenson challenges all of its workers to improve it and offers them incentives like gift cards or jackets as rewards for good ideas.
“We know if we engage the craft workers, the people doing the work, the people that are closest to it, and challenge them to come up with a better way of doing it, that the sky is the limit,” he said.
For example, Maag said that sometimes making a tweak to a process might mean that a crew of fve can now do the work with only four people and the ffth team member can be assigned to a different task. A tweak could be in the form of the way a certain tool is used in the build process or a more effcient sequence for getting the work done, said Maag.
One innovation that
Mortenson is in the process
of creating is the ability to
use an algorithm to defne the
best energy output with the least cost of construction. The com-
pany is working with Stanford University to perfect the system,
which looks at the placement of turbines, the output they will gen-
erate and then factors in construction costs. The algorithm might
show that moving a turbine a bit further a bit to the left or a bit
to the right could reduce the cost of construction signifcantly but
keep the wind resource the same.
“So the algorithm will go in and automatically relocate the tur-
bines looking for the best energy output and the least cost of con-
struction to get them put there,” he said.
Software for Operation Efciencies
In addition to algorithms like the one that Mortenson is using in partnership with Stanford, Maag said the company uses 3D design software for all of its builds and that it can layer the schedule on top of the design (the forth dimension) to give workers an understanding of where the project needs to be at any point in the future.
“So using virtual design has been pretty cool,” said Maag, add-
ing, “of course that helps us sequence the work and look for the
most effcient way of building the project.”
Vestas, one the largest turbine manufacturers in the world
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by Saundra Latham Updated on 01.09.19
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Since its founding in 2006, has grown from a small financial startup into a formidable personal finance tool with more than 15 million users. Acquired by Intuit in 2009, Mint has become the budgeting go-to for tech-savvy consumers who want a convenient place to manage their money on the go. You can use Mint via its website or apps made for iOS and Android devices.
Despite its massive following, however, Mint has some drawbacks. We’ll take a closer look at them in this article, and recommend a few alternatives in case your love affair with the site has cooled, or you simply want a service with a slightly different approach.
A Quick Overview of Mint.com
What can you do on Mint? If you’re unfamiliar with the site, here’s an overview of the main features:
Stay on top of your budget: Mint lets you see where your money is going with a quick glance. Once you know your spending patterns, you can set up a budget to help you meet your goals, dialing back spending in one area to save in another.
Free credit score: Your credit score can have a huge impact on your financial freedom, so it’s important to know where you stand. (Note, however, that the score you’ll get from Mint is not your FICO score, which is based on your credit reports from all three credit bureaus and is the one most lenders check. Mint’s score uses information from Equifax only.)
Custom alerts: Mint can tip you off if you’re overspending, wasting too much money on ATM fees, or approaching an important bill due date. It can also let you know if there’s an unusual transaction that could be fraudulent.
Pay bills: With Mint Bills, you can pay whomever you owe with a couple of clicks by hooking up a bank account or credit card.
Track investments: Wherever you’ve stashed your money — 401(k)s, IRAs, mutual funds, brokerage accounts — you can see how it’s performing compared to market benchmarks. You can also keep an eye on fees and get advice on asset allocation.
Track your net worth: Mint integrates all of your assets and debts to keep a running tally of your net worth — one of the best gauges of your overall financial progress. If you’re a homeowner, it will even factor in your home’s estimated value (via real estate website Zillow) and remaining mortgage debt.
How Mint.com Makes Money
It’s free to sign up for an account on Mint.com, and unlike many other competitors, there are no premium accounts that require a fee for you to unlock more features. Mainly, the site makes money when you sign up for some of the sponsored services it recommends, such as checking accounts, brokers, or credit cards. When you use these services, Mint.com gets a referral fee for being the middleman.
According to , Mint.com has also recently started running banner ads, which are typically pay-per-click. The site also sells its deep pools of financial data to different providers, but it’s important to note that this information doesn’t contain users’ personal information — it is aggregate information about users’ financial habits on the whole.
Downsides of Mint.com
For a free service, Mint is fairly robust. But it’s aging — not gracefully, many say — and has some drawbacks that have sent some users searching for an alternative:
Categorizing transactions can be clunky: Mint automatically funnels your transactions into categories such as entertainment, transportation, and food and dining. Unfortunately, the process is far from seamless and users say they often have to change where their transactions end up manually.
Data synchronization hiccups: Many Mint users, including some here at disclaimer-statement.info, have had trouble keeping their various bank accounts synced with the service, sometimes experiencing lags of up to a week.
Ads and suggested services: As we discussed above, this is how Mint keeps its services free. But some users complain that all the advice they receive on Mint is tied to a sponsored service.
Weak investment feature: If you’ve invested any amount of money, you may be underwhelmed at Mint’s investments feature. Though you can see where your money is, you can’t do much with it since there is no way to manage asset allocation.
Reporting isn’t that great: You can’t generate any reports or financial statements via Mint. The only functionality in this area is the ability to export transactions using a CSV file that you can open in Excel.
Weak customer service: With a free product, customer service is typically one of the first areas to suffer, and several reviewers say Mint needs improvement here. If you need help, you can browse a community forum or fill out a Web form for a personalized response, which Mint says should come within 24 hours. There is also a chat feature. However, there is no phone support for immediate answers.
Security fears: Mint.com touts its triple-layer security, which includes bank-grade 128-bit SSL data encryption and a mobile PIN. But the fact remains that when all of your financial data is laid bare and synched with the institutions themselves in one place, a cyber breach could be very damaging. You could also be liable for any losses, depending on whether your financial institutions prohibit you from sharing your account information with third-party sites.
Lacks running register: Without a running register, you really don’t know exactly how much money you have at any given moment, since transactions take time to clear.
Alternatives to Mint.com
One of Mint’s longtime alternatives is Quicken, but its future is currently up in the air. Intuit announced in August that it would try to find a buyer for the well-known desktop-based personal finance software, once the bedrock of Intuit’s business. Mint, owned by Intuit, is well-positioned to snap up some of Quicken’s users, but it’s not as fully featured and (like most alternatives) doesn’t allow users to import Quicken data.
Fortunately, whether you’re jumping ship from Quicken or simply want a different feature set than Mint offers, there are a lot of alternatives. Here are three of the best:
CountAbout
set out to specifically address some of the shortfalls of services such as Mint.com. For instance, it offers a running register balance, and it’s one of the few services that lets you import data from Quicken.
It uses a paid-subscription business model, so you won’t see any ads or be pitched any services. In addition, CountAbout pledges not to sell your data to anyone, and stores only your email address on its servers.
“CountAbout can import users’ historical Quicken data, so users can pick up with CountAbout where they left off with Quicken,” says Joseph M. Carpenter, CountAbout co-founder. “Additionally, since we are using Intuit (makers of Quicken and Mint) to connect our users to their financial institutions, any account that you can connect in Quicken or Mint can be connected in CountAbout.”
Here’s a sampling of CountAbout’s features:
Track detailed budgeting and expenses
Automatically download transactions
Customize your spending and saving categories, searches, and reports
Know exactly what you have with running register balances
Easily import Quicken, Quicken for Mac and Mint data
No advertising, hidden fees, or forced upgrade charges
A basic CountAbout account will set you back $9.99 a year, while a premium version costs $29.99 a year. The difference between the two: With a basic account, you won’t get automatic downloading of banking, credit card, and other transaction information that you will with a premium account.
If you’re commitment-shy, you can try out a premium CountAbout account for free for 15 days. You can access CountAbout via its website or apps made for iOS and Android devices.
Like CountAbout, (commonly known as YNAB) won’t pitch you products or show you ads. And because you don’t directly connect YNAB with your bank, security worries aren’t quite as apocalyptic.
However, the major difference between YNAB and Mint.com is YNAB’s more proactive focus on teaching users about how to better manage their money.
YNAB requires you to be a more active user than Mint, uploading transactions yourself. It uses a four-rule method to help you meet your financial goals, whether that’s digging yourself out of debt, living more within your means, or saving up for future expenses.
To that end, YNAB also offers up to three free webinars every day. Topics include a more detailed introduction to YNAB, budgeting, smart credit-card use, and adapting to your pay cycle.
Here’s a sampling of YNAB’s features:
Automatically sync your account on all devices wherever there’s an Internet connection
Reconciliation wizard lets you reconcile accounts so YNAB and bank balances match up
Schedule repeating transactions such as paychecks and bills
Easily split transactions into more than one category
Generate reports on spending by category or payee; income versus expenses; and net worth
YNAB is a bit pricey at $60, but it’s a one-time purchase that gives you access on all of your mobile devices and household computers. If you want to try before you buy, you can use a fully featured demo for 34 days at no charge.
There is no cost to download YNAB’s mobile or tablet apps, but you’ll need to have either already purchased YNAB or have an active free trial to use them. You can access YNAB via its desktop program or apps made for iOS and Android devices.
Mint.com might be robust enough for tracking day-to-day spending and saving, but it doesn’t offer much in the way of investment planning. If you’re looking for a tool that helps you step up your investment game, Personal Capital could be a good choice. It also has budgeting tools and bill reports to help you manage daily finances.
Here’s a sampling of Personal Capital’s features:
Calculate your net worth based on your major assets and debts
Analyze your investment account fees to see if you’re paying too much
Run investment checkup to see improvements you can make to your portfolio to bump up returns without taking on too much risk
See cash flow, account balances, spending, bills, and other crucial information on your personal dashboard
Personal Capital follows the common “freemium” business model — you get the base level service for free, but have to pay to upgrade for additional services. In this case, the basic budgeting tools are free, and it’s Personal Capital’s investment advisory services you’d need to pay for.
The price depends on how much is in your portfolio — most brokers, whether online or not, charge this way. For an account of up to $1 million, you’ll pay 0.89% of your account balance per year. If you invest more, fees drop to 0.79% for the first $3 million, 0.69% for the next $2 million, and 0.59% for the next $5 million. Got more than $10 million? You’ll pay 0.49%. You can access Personal Capital via its website or apps made for iOS and Android devices.
For a more complete picture, see our Personal Capital Review.
Find a Budgeting Tool You’ll Stick With
In the end, any of the budgeting services we’ve mentioned here are worthy competitors to Mint.com. Mint is certainly the juggernaut in this category, and though it’s showing its age, it still has a lot to offer — especially since it’s free.
If you need more help deciding on the best financial planning programs and apps, check out some of our past articles on the topic:
Choosing a Budgeting System That’s Right for You
3 Apps for America’s Money Management Woes
Best Debt Repayment Tools and Apps
Startups to Help You save Money and Manage Your Finances
How to Use Technology to Start Saving More
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OpenGlobalRights has published a recent article on the DS Myanmar Climate Land Bank report of May 2018. You can access the article here: https://www.openglobalrights.org/climate-land-banks-addressing-displacement-in-myanmar-and-beyond/
New DS Photo Essay on Climate Displacement in Lau Lagoon, Solomon Islands
Latest Updates on Guna Relocation in Panana
Commemorating 10 Years of Action - the 2016 DS Annual Report
Nature: Human adaptation: Manage climate-induced resettlement
From 2016-2020 Displacement Solutions is implementing its Climate Displacement Land Initiative (CDLI) in five frontline countries presently grappling with the very real effects of climate change. Building on our more than a decade of field experience working on climate displacement issues, during the Initiative we are working with groups in Bangladesh, Colombia, Fiji, Panama and the Solomon Islands to identify areas vulnerable to climate displacement and land sites near these threatened areas that could serve as viable relocation sites for communities no longer able to remain in their current homes. Our new report focuses on one of the first places in the Solomon Islands facing climate displacement and the quest to find new land resources for those needing to move from their present homes. In late 2016, DS sent photo-journalist Beni Knight to Lau Lagoon on the island of Malaita to document the challenges facing island dwellers in the area. This report builds on earlier efforts of the Initiative in the country, most notably our groundbreaking work on Ontong Java Atoll, which were also spearheaded by Beni. Our report Climate Displacement in Ontong Java Atoll, Solomon Islands and our film on the same theme were some of the first efforts…...
Orion recently published an update on Gunayala and the ongoing struggles of the Guna people to relocate from their threatened islands. The article which can be viewed here also outlines DS' work with the Guna. A report of the most recent research mission by DS to Guna territory will be released shortly....
Ten Years of Action It is hard to believe that DS has now been active for ten busy and eventful years. This has been quite a ride for our (intentionally) small and flexible organisation, and one involving an wonderful team of dedicated HLP experts from around the world working in a range of displacement hotspots. From developing the Peninsula Principles, to spearheading global efforts to obtain land for climate displaced people, developing IDP return designs in Timor Leste, Somalia, Colombia, Bhutan and many more, carrying on-site investigations in Tuvalu, Solomon Islands, Panama, Kiribati, Bangladesh and other climate change-affected areas, to conducting HLP rights analysis and restitution design work in Myanmar, advising the UN on HLP issues in Syria, publishing several books, inaugurating the world’s first law school courses on climate displacement, and writing DS reports, producing films, building homes for climate displaced families in Chittagong, and so much more, this first DS decade has been an exhilarating one. Since our founding on 28 December 2006, DS has worked in some 35 countries to assist in finding rights-based solutions to forced displacement in all of its forms. Besides our legal experts, we have had the honour of working with villagers, community…...
The scientific journal Nature calls attention to the growing issue of climate displacement. The Peninsula Principles on Climate Displacement Within States are referenced as a framework for protecting the rights of climate displaced persons.
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Alibaba Increases Stake in Tao Piao Piao, Gets Closer to Entertainment Ecosystem
BY Qin Qian
Alibaba Pictures announced on Monday that it will increase its stake in Tao Piao Piao, an online ticketing platform, from 87.6 percent to 96.7 percent, for 1.3 billion yuan.
Zhonglian Shengshi, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Alibaba Pictures, will acquire about 9 percent equity interest in Hangzhou Aurora, which operates Tao Piao Piao, from six minority shareholders.
Alibaba said the deal would help realize its commitment to building “an entertainment ecosystem” and developing “new infrastructure” for the film industry.
“Being the platform that serves the most critical function of consumer reach for the new infrastructure,” said the company in the filing to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, “Tao Piao Piao has successfully established a solid foundation in areas including film promotion, distribution and ticketing-services.”
Yu Yongfu, chairman of Alibaba Pictures, discussed the company’s “new infrastructure” strategy publicly last month, during the Shanghai International Film Festival. He said the company will strive to become a platform that serves content companies in production and distribution, but will not compete with them.
Recommended ReadingChina Ticket Firms Maoyan and Weying to Merge?By Fergus Ryan
Tao Piao Piao, which was called Taobao Movie when it was established in 2014, rising up from the fierce ticketing competition in the past three years, is now one of the three biggest online ticketing platforms in China.
According to a report by the data center of China Business Network in March, Tao Piao Piao ranked the second in the film ticketing market, with 30 percent market share, after Maoyan’s 33 percent and before Yu Piaoer’s 16 percent.
The success came at high costs: Alibaba Pictures lost nearly 1 billion last year, primarily due to the promotion of Tao Piao Piao.
It’s not clear whether the company will increase its investments in Tao Piao Piao after the deal, but in addition to the ticketing service, it will provide more contents and social media functions.
Recommended ReadingChina’s Online Cinema Ticketing IndustryBy Jonathan Papish
Even before this deal, Tao Piao Piao has already started its business in film investment and distribution. Many of the hit films in the summer, such as “Wu Kong” and “Brotherhood of Blades II”, involved its work.
Both of its competitors, Maoyan and Yu Piaoer are also trying to expand their businesses into production and distribution, as the growth of the ticketing business has been slowing down.
Analysts expected competitions to become even more fierce in the next couple years, and the landscape in the business might change very quickly.
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Live-streaming Platform Inke Acquires Social App Jimu for $85 Million July 16, 2019
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Literary Arts Friends President Fred Zirm Takes Writers’ Center Reins for 2016 Season
by Ryan Pait on June 24, 2016 1.11K views
The Chautauqua Writers’ Center will welcome a diverse range of writing talent as well as a new interim director in its 2016 season.
Fred Zirm, president of the Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends, will serve as interim program director of the Writers’ Center for the summer. Zirm is stepping in for program director Clara Silverstein, who is taking the summer off.
Zirm said he’s looking forward to seeing how the Writers’ Center runs “from the other side of the curtain.” He has participated in numerous writing workshops at Chautauqua over the years and is a familiar face in the literary arts community. He said learning how all of the writers’ accommodations, scheduling and transportation works over the course of the season has been exciting.
“All the backstage stuff,” Zirm said. “I’m excited to be a part of that. And a little bit nervous, because I don’t know the ropes yet, but I’m looking forward to it.”
Zirm said Silverstein did a lot of the pre-season work, which includes securing the writers-in-residence and the week-by-week schedule. He said she will visit at the beginning of the season to help facilitate, and then he’ll become the “point person” for the Writers’ Center. He said he is happy to have Silverstein help prepare him, because she normally runs the program.
Zirm said he was excited by this year’s lineup of writers. He has read some of the writers’ works and said he was impressed by the range of voices and the wide set of skills they’ll bring to Chautauqua. He said he hopes for a lot of dialogue between the writers-in-residence and looks forward to hearing different angles on what it means to be a writer through their workshops and Brown Bag lectures.
For Zirm, there are two elements about the Writers’ Center that make it special. One is the environment offered by the workshops.
“Almost without exception — I’ve been taking workshops for 15, 16 years — I’ve found that you get people who are skilled writers and teachers,” Zirm said. “Without exception, you get a community of people, and the kind of people that tend to be attracted to Chautauqua are interested, engaged, have a wide variety of backgrounds and they give honest but civil criticism. I haven’t been in a workshop where it’s been — though I’ve heard of one or two — where it’s become a clash of egos.”
The other element is a more practical one.
“In the world of workshops, they are a bargain,” Zirm said. “From a consumer standpoint, there’s more bang for the buck.”
The 2016 season starts with visits from two Philips — Philip Gerard and Philip Terman.
Gerard, author of The Dark of the Island, will lead five stand-alone, one-day workshops, which are gathered under the theme of “Turning Fact into Story.” Although each day’s topic varies, the main goal is learning how to use fact and experience to create narratives. Students can attend any number of the prose workshops.
Poet-in-residence Terman, author of eight poetry collections, will lead “Writing Where We Are at Chautauqua.” Terman and his students will look to the environment around them as a prompt for their poetry.
Kim T. Griswell is the author of Carnivorous Plants and has an editorial career that has spanned 20 years. Her workshop, “Finding Your Voice,” will focus on helping students recognize and use their unique authorial voices.
Poet Aimee Nezhukumatathil, author of Lucky Fish, will lead a workshop titled “Bringing the Outside In: Poetry and Wonder.” She and her students will look to the wonders of the natural world as inspiration for their poems.
Pushcart Prize winner Ann Hood will lead “Writing the Personal Essay,” in which she and her students examine the work of essayists and write their own.
Poet-in-residence Charles Coe, author of Picnic on the Moon, will help students turn their focus to those they know best with his workshop, “Writing About the People in Your Life.” Coe will gear the workshop toward writing about those people in a way that is sincere and respectful.
Emily Fox Gordon, author of Mockingbird Years: A Life In and Out of Therapy, will lead a workshop called “Retrieving Lost Worlds.” She and her students will look at the process of creating memoirs and preserving people and places through writing.
Playwright Zayd Dohrn, whose play The Profane will be performed at Bratton Theater this summer, will lead a special playwriting workshop called “The Great American Drama: Writing Plays That Matter.”
Rachel DeWoskin, author of Blind, will lead a special one-day workshop on July 20 called “Making Your Story Move: Characters in Conflict.” DeWoskin and her students will look at what makes characters tick in famous literary works and how to recreate that in their own writing.
Gregory Donovan, author of poetry collection Torn from the Sun, will re-examine the concept of writing what one knows in his workshop, “Writing Out of Your Mind: Using Science, History, and Imagination.” Donovan and his students will look to the expansive world outside of their own minds as inspiration for their poetry.
Tom Noyes is the author of Come By Here: A Novella and Stories and will lead a workshop called “Writing in Place.” Noyes and his students will examine setting and how it can help create dynamic characters and themes.
Jim Daniels will lead a small advanced poetry workshop for writers with previous poetry experience. Daniels will discuss issues of craft and provide feedback for his students.
Leslie Daniels, author of Cleaning Nabokov’s House, will lead a workshop on character development titled “Get Your Characters in Trouble.” Daniels and her students will explore how characters drive stories.
Nicole Cooley, author of Breach, will focus on inspiration in her poetry workshop, “Let’s Get Lost While Writing Poems,” on how to use personal minutiae from their lives in their poetry.
Linda K. Wertheimer is the author of Faith Ed: Teaching About Religion in an Age of Intolerance and frequently writes about religion. She and her students will examine faith and how they can write about it in an accessible way.
Poet Molly Peacock will lead a master class called “Sonnet Sublime: Fourteen Lines Transcend Their Limits.” She and her students will look at famous sonnets from the past while composing their own within the form.
Nancy McCabe, author of From Little Houses to Little Women: Revisiting a Literary Childhood, will help her students explore the various ways stories can be told with her workshop, “Fun with Story Structure.” She and her students will look to examples and experiment with the structure of their own work.
Kent Gramm, author of The Prayer of Jesus, will lead the poetry workshop “Writing from the Bible.” Gramm will teach his students how anybody, regardless of belief, can look to one of the most famous books in the world as a springboard for their poetry.
Ron MacLean and Neil Shepard will wrap up the 2016 season at the Writers’ Center.
MacLean, author of Headlong, will lead the last prose workshop of the season, “Raising the Stakes in Stories.” He and his students will explore techniques that can increase tension and escalate conflict in their work.
Shepard, author of poetry collections Hominid Up and Vermont Exit Ramps II, will lead the final poetry workshop of the season, “Getting Inside the Music of Poetry and All That Jazz.” He and his students will examine the ways in which musical technique and form can become part of their poetry.
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Ryan Pait gets a different haircut every summer to keep the people of Chautauqua guessing. This is his fourth summer at The Chautauquan Daily, so if you’re tired of him, that’s OK. He recently graduated with his master’s degree in literature from Western Kentucky University. Don’t ask him about what he’s doing after this summer, but do ask him about the Nicole Kidman renaissance, the return of “Game of Thrones” and what he’s reading.
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This is to announce that Celeste Allegrea Adams passed away on September 21, 2009, after a struggle with pancreatic cancer. We are leaving her website up, just as she left it, for a few more years. Feel free to contact me for information about Celeste's books and writings -- Julie Sitney (Celeste's sister)
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Conscious Life Film Festival: February 13 - 15, 2009
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We applaud all the filmmakers, who submitted films, for their efforts to understand and elevate life on this planet. Conscious Creators are a catalytic force because they use the power of imagination to call forth a new age that reflects a quantum leap in evolutionary development and a new paradigm for life. With a film festival pass you’ll be able to see this amazing collection of films chosen from a large number of submissions, and you’ll also be able to attend the workshop on Saturday, as well as the film panel and award reception on Sunday. Celeste Allegrea Adams
Friday. February 13, 2009
1:00 PM – 10:00 PM PLEASE NOTE: THE FILM FESTIVAL IS ABSOLUTELY FREE FROM 1PM – 6PM ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH!
1:00 PM. THE SILENT REVOLUTION OF TRUTH, Directed by Jack Gerlach, Written by Michael Horn. You’ll find the startling answer in the remarkable, true-life story about how a five-year old Swiss boy’s meetings with extraterrestrials would lead him, later in his life, through dozens of countries, meeting many famous world leaders, in order to fulfill ancient prophecies. You’ll be captivated by how “Bill” Eduard Albert Meier was transformed into “the Phantom”, a real life combination of Indiana Jones, Lawrence of Arabia and Star Wars who, packing a .4 Magnum, apprehended serial killers and mass murderers. Decided for yourself. If it’s all a hoax, why has Meier been the target of 21 assassination attempts. 94 minutes.
3:00 PM. THE WAKE UP CALL ANYBODY LISTENING? by Patty Greer. The flawless precision and sacred geometry of Crop Circles, offer instant subconscious information. You’ll feel like you’ve been in the Crop Circles after watching this movie, and most of your Crop Circle questions will be answered. 77 minutes
4:30 PM. THE WORLD WHEEL JOURNEYS: One woman’s Quest for World Peace, by Vijali Hamilton. Artist Vijali Hamilton takes us with her on her remarkable, on going pilgrimage, the World Wheel, as she creates monumental stone sculptures and develops community circling the planet through fifteen countries. Addressing each person and each community’s fears and dreams, she draws people together into a ceremony performance of transformation. A living example of how one woman can make a difference in our world. 27 minutes.
5:00 PM. DREAMTIME: Creating Art and Ritual, by Roberta Cantow. Depicts alternative and creative ways that women are celebrating the transition points of their lives, demonstrating their belief in the potential of these moments for personal and spiritual transformation. By using the imagination and expressing through art and ritual, the very imagery of the soul, the women in the film mark the milestone events as they cross the various thresholds of their lives. 62:00 minutes
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM SIX SHORTS
METASPHERE: The Altered State of Heart. Animation by James Guy. This innovative animediation is created in Flash animation. The viewer can consciously entrain with the visuals and activate within themselves a feeling of body energetic awareness through following along with the movement and the visual narrative “story” of the piece. As each of the seven energetic power centers of the body “light up” the story unfolds a visualization of the artists’ interpretation of a kundalini experience. 8 minutes
ONE: The Garry Davis Story, by Arthur Kanegis. Garry Davis gave up US citizenship to become the first official World Citizen. Thousands of refugees and detainees used their World passport ID to obtain freedom. He stands for a world free from the scourge of war and oppression, where we are one.
THE MIRACLE OF HSIN TAO: The Perfect Health Support Solution for a Modern Lifestyle, by Ratziel Bander. Relax, Let Go, Find Peace. Allow Hsin Tao to effortlessly regenerate your life. These ancient, once secret techniques, are immediately effective, perfectly tailored for the modern world. 12 minutes
A LOVE SONG FROM A VANISHING HONEYBEE. Celeste Allegrea Adams explores the magic and beauty of honeybees, as they experience the fragrance and color of the flowers that grow in the neighborhood where she lives. Their journey leads the viewer beyond this realm into the next. 5:30 minutes.
REMEMBERING THE FORGOTTEN REFUGEES OF SUDAN, Directed by Malcolm Jackson. The Eritrean refugee camps in Sudan have existed for 40 years. This film explores the deplorable conditions in the camps and offers pathways to healing. 7:30 minutes
PUT IT IN A BOOK, directed by Rodrigo Garcia. Written by 18-year-old Jabril Muhammad, who has Sickle Cell Anemia, loosely based on Jabril’s life. About two brothers. One is killed by gang violence, the other has to choose between a path of righteousness or a path of revenge. Sponsored by Make a Film Foundation, which teams industry professionals with critically and terminally diagnosed youth to create short film legacies. 18 minutes.
7:30 PM. BEST OF THE ELEVATE FILM FESTIVAL: 60 minutes of award-winning shorts from the Elevate Film Festival.
8:30 PM. JACKSON, Directed by Jonathan Lawton. Starring Barry Primus and Charlie Robinson. “Jackson” takes place in a single day that turns into a cold rainy night. Fueled by bottles of Thunderbird, Donald and Sam end up having a great adventure filled with humor, philosophy, danger and hope. Their story is accented by other down and out characters who express themselves by singing some of the world's greatest opera arias. From an old drunk (Richard Brown) singing a Donizetti duet with a crack addict (Shawnette Sulker), to a bag lady (Elle Lee) singing Carmen, these surreal musical sequences stand apart from but enrich Donald and Sam's journey. What begins as a simple tale about two bums becomes a story about the beauty and resilience of the human spirit. 97 minutes.
Saturday: February 14, 2008
10:00 AM – 10:00 PM 10AM. WATER. Directed by Anastasiya Popova, Julia Perkul. Water, the most amazing yet least studied substance on earth. From times immemorial, scientists, philosophers and theologians tried to understand its explicit and implicit properties, which are phenomenal, beyond the common physical laws of nature. Witness recent, breathtaking discoveries by researchers worldwide from Russia, Kazakhstan, Switzerland, Israel, the USA, Britain, Austria, Japan, Argentina, china, and Tibet. 1 hour 22 min
11:30 PM. SIMPLY RAW: Reversing Diabetes in 30 Days. Six McDonalds-muchin’ Americans swear off junk foods for 30-days to eat a diet of 100% vegan live foods. The medical results are astounding and the human story heart warming. Interviews include Woody Harrelson, Tony Robbins, Rev. Michael Beckwith, medical doctors and health experts. 90 minutes.
1:00 PM. BLOODLINE. Bruce Burgess Director, Rene Barnett Producer. A three- year investigation into the so-called Bloodline conspiracy, that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene, had children, and fled to France where they are secretly buried today—facts that would totally refute the whole foundation of accepted Christianity. Q & A with the Director. 113 minutes
3:30 PM. 2012: SCIENCE OR SUPERSTITION. Directed by Nimrod Erez. December 21, 2012: the end date of the sophisticated Long Count Calendar created by the ancient Maya in central America. Countless books and websites, magazine articles and newspaper headlines debate its meaning, with enthusiasts in two camps: those forecasting apocalypse—the end of time—and those who see a coming renewal, a rebirth of consciousness. Featured in the film are Graham Hancock, John Major Jenkins, Daniel Pinchbeck, Alberto Villoldo, Anthony Aveni, Robert Bauval, Jim Marrs, Walter Cruttenden, Lawrence E. Joseph, Douglas Rushkoff, John Anthony West and Benito Vegas Duran. 77 minutes.
5:00 PM. TUNING IN, by David Thomas “You always have been, and always will be, in control of your life as a piece of God in this Universe” is the central theme in this unprecedented film bursting with powerful, uplifting and awareness-awakening insights. For the first time, six prominent channelers and their spirit counterparts are interviewed in this film: Lee Carroll/Kryon, Geoffrey Hoppe/Tobias, Shawn Randall/Torah, John Cali/Chief Joseph, Darryl Anka/Bashar, Wendy Kennedy/Pleiadian Collective. “Tuning In” is inspiring, uplifting, enlightening and nicely crafted. It should be seen by all those who want to ‘unplug from mass consciousness,’ ‘reclaim their sovereignty,’ as well as their ‘co-creative abilities,’ and ‘eliminate drama.’ 79 MINUTES
6:30 PM. ORBS: The Veil is Lifting, by Hope Mead and Seth Mead. We may be living in the midst of other dimension our eyes alone cannot perceive. “Orbs: The Veil is Lifting” shows how modern digital photography allows us to observe what has been with us all along: a hidden world of light spheres known as orbs. 63 MINUTES
8:00 PM. Interactive Workshop: Dreaming in a New World: An Experiment in Creating a Transformational Story for the Future of this Planet. This workshop, facilitated by Celeste Allegrea Adams, is interactive and participatory and focuses on freeing the imagination so that we can communally create a story or vision of an enlightened future. Dreamers, Futurists, Artists, Metaphysician, and the team of Channelers from “Tuning In, which will screen prior to this workshop, are invited to participate. Hope Mead, Co-Director of “Orbs,” will facilitate in calling in the orbs to assist us as we envision a New World. This workshop is for film festival pass holders only. Photography and filming may take place, so you’ll need be okay with that to attend.
10:00 AM THE REFLECTING POOL, by Jarek Kupsc. An investigation of the 9/11 events by a Russian-American journalist and a father of a 9/11 victim implicates the US government in the attacks. An intense, sobering investigation into the most controversial tragedy of our time. Drawn from established sources and based on verifiable facts, “The Reflecting Pool” is a thought-provoking study of a search for truth and the profound consequences of not looking for it any further than the nightly news. 1 hr 46 minutes.
12:00 PM FUTURE BY DESIGN: by William Gazecki. Imagine a world free from hunger and war – where our collective focus is education and environmental sustainability. Visually and intellectually engaging, “Future by Design” is an exploration of one man’s vision of a future worthy of our children, our grandchildren, and beyond. 90 minutes
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM TRANSFORMATIONAL FILM PANEL: BRINGING IN THE NEW DAWN WITH EYES WIDE OPEN This panel will explore the question of how we can keep our focus on creating a golden future, while not shutting our eyes to the challenges plaguing this country and the planet. There is often a split in perspectives between people who think that discussing or focusing on the negative (the wars that are being fought around the world, voting corruption in the US, health-care fraud, environmental devastation, the AIDS crisis, etc.) helps to attract and perpetuate a dark situation, while others believe that world atrocities can only be alleviated by exposing abuse and corruption. How can the perspective of "Never Ignoring or Forgetting Injustices" (as forgetting the past means repeating the past), work hand-in-hand with "Being the Dream of a New Beginning." How can we create a bridge between the whistle-blowers and the Visualizers; between the Delphinian type Oracle or Sibyl, who sees visions of apocalyptic gloom, and those who want only to hear positive good news. Is one perspective right and the other wrong, or are both essential to helping us make a leap in our evolution? How would Quantum Physics or String Theory describe these alternate views on reality? Will the election of a new president, who stands for Hope and Change, influence the subject matter and perspectives of filmmakers, both independent and studio? Please join us for what promises to be a lively, energetic and provocative discussion. Filming may take place.
Celeste Allegrea Adams: Director of the Film Festival / Moderator / Award-winning Screenwriter / Documentary Narration Writer / Author, "Keepers of the Dream"/ Story Consultant. Her short mood piece, "A Love Song from a Vanishing Honeybee" is screening in the festival.
William Arntz: Producer / Director of "What the Bleep Do We Know!?" He is a retired Physicist, Computer Scientist & Entrepreneur. William is currently working on the film: GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and Ho's Please Stand Up!,” scheduled for release this summer.
Joseph Culp: Actor/Producer. Joseph co-produced and starred in "The Reflecting Pool," the first investigative drama to challenge the official version of 9/11. Numerous film credits include leading roles in Pakula’s “Dream Lover,” Hellman’s “Iguana,” and Novaro’s “El Jardin del Eden.”
William Gazecki earned an Academy Award nomination and a second Emmy win for his first feature documentary, WACO: The Rules of Engagement.” He is a recipient of the International Press Academy's Golden Satellite Award for "Reckless Indifference." His film “Future by Design” is screening at the festival.
J. F. Lawton is a writer/director/producer of over a dozen feature films from big budget studio hits, small independents and straight to video cult classics. His latest film, “Jackson,” is screening in the festival and is his first feature opera about the homeless. Among his numerous credits are “Pretty Woman,” “Under Siege,” “Mistress,” and the television series “VIP.”
Hope Mead, director of “Orbs,” is an artist who expresses herself in many forms. She is a professional photographer, filmmaker, songwriter, healing-arts practitioner and mother. Hope was introduced to Dr. John Lilly and experimented with his sensory deprivation tanks, discovering that we live side-by-side with other dimensions that are always available to us.
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Andy Croft reviews Shabbigentile, by Alan Morrison.
There is a long poem in Alan Morrison’s fantastic new collection Shabbigentile (Culture Matters, £9, available here) about the 1930s Left Book Club, invoking the idea of ‘red belles-lettres ringing red bells / Of rebellion’:
‘Now once more books need to be mobilised / Against the oncoming monsoon of moral / Panic and scapegoating in the face of a new / Gentrified fascism, a bespoke chauvinism... Poisoning the well of tolerant discourse.’
In many ways the whole collection is about mobilising books, ‘print-antidotes / To right-wing hegemonies.’ And in a book thick with references to Jack London, Dickens, Lukacs, Saint-Simon, Lukacs and John Davidson, Morrison knows that the best books are on our side.
As always, Morrison’s poetry is dense, eloquent and rich with information, ideas and arguments. There are some important long poems here, notably ‘Another Five Giants’ (about Tory and New Labour attacks on the Welfare State), ‘Not Paternoster Square’ (the Occupy Movement) and ‘St Jude and the Welfare Jew’ (racist tabloid newspapers accusing Jeremy Corbyn of anti-Semitism).
The title of the book is a play on ‘shabby genteel’ and an attack on the ways that a nominally Christian society like the UK contains within it the forces of neo-liberalism, austerity, racism and fascism:
‘red-top parrots of blue torch opinions / Igniting blue-touch tabloids, cropped topics, / Pre-packaged antagonisms, analgesic / Propagandas, austerity narratives... rabid Malthusians and poison pen Mendelists.’
Two poems by Andy Croft
archy says hooray
by Andy Croft
boss i have heard
some human beans think
hungry and homeless people
are like cockroaches i
am flattered at
last some humans beans feel
sorry for us poor insects
hooray there is
hope for some human beans after
all either that or the
human beans who think
are like cockroaches
are worse than
cockroaches we would
never be so unkind
for Sheree Mack
‘Each has a gift that Nature gave,
But some their neighbour’s fame must crave.’
- Ivan Krylov
The lion shakes its regal mane,
The monkey thumps his chest,
The narwhal waves its tusk, the crab his claws;
The peacock flaunts its gorgeous train,
The bowerbird his nest,
The civet sprays her musk, the tiger roars,
As they will:
Creation on the catwalk dressed to kill.
What artist’s palette ’ere revealed
Such bright and vivid hues?
What hand or eye could frame such drop-dead threads?
What cobbler’s last has ever heeled
So many fuck-me shoes?
This cattle-market game of turning heads
Means your date
Is either your next meal or else your mate.
Alas, far from the critics’ praise
There dwells Arachne’s kin
Whose intricate designs go unrewarded;
Condemned by vain and boastful ways
To sit alone and spin
And know their silken lines are not applauded,
Spiders must
Live out their days in realms of gloom and dust.
Frustrated by their dark estate,
The eight-legged tribe agreed
To give a special prize to Nature’s spinners;
So others might appreciate
The art that spiders need,
They asked their friends the flies to crown the winners.
As it does,
The teeming insect world began to buzz.
While waiting for the six-legged crowd
To hit the spiders’ gala,
Each thought her own design beyond compare,
Original, authentic, proud –
But flies know that the parlour
Where spiders like to dine, that winding stair,
Leads us straight
To something that no art can imitate.
And so, while other creatures sing
And preen and prance and puff,
This cobweb crew’s always the world’s outsiders;
When artless Nature does its thing,
And struts its gorgeous stuff,
The little beady gaze of every spider’s
Still on the prize,
In realms of dust and dark, still counting flies.
Doodgeskiet: In memory of Chris Hani
It is twenty-five years this month since the assassination of Chris Hani, general secretary of the South African Communist Party and chief of staff of Umkhonto we Sizwe. Hani was also Mandela’s de facto deputy; his murder opened the way to the disappointments and betrayals of Thabo Mbeki and Joseph Zuma. Here is a poem by Andy Croft to mark the occasion.
‘Doodgeskiet’ means ‘dead’ in Afrikaans; Comrade B was Hani’s name inside Umkhonto we Sizwe; he was murdered in Boksburg; ‘Guptagate’ is the popular short-hand for the corruption that enmired the ANC under Zuma’s leadership. The poem is, of course, based on the old Wobbly song ‘Joe Hill’.
Doodgeskiet
in memory of Chris Hani
Last night I dreamed I saw the man
Who murdered Comrade B,
Says I, ‘you should be twelve months dead.’
‘I never died,’ says he,
‘I never died,’ says he.
‘In 1993,’ says I,
Him standing by my bed,
‘They gaoled you on a murder charge.’
Says he, ‘but I ain't dead,’
Says he, ‘but I ain't dead.’
‘Democracy imprisoned you,
We locked you up,’ says I.
‘Takes more than votes to kill a man,’
Says he, ‘I didn't die,’
Says he, ‘I didn't die.’
And standing there as big as life
And smiling with his eyes
He says, ‘what they forgot to kill
Went on to organize,
Went on to organize.
‘They promised you the coming Dawn,
But promises come cheap –
We bought your dreams of liberty
While you were still asleep,
While you were still asleep.
‘From Boksburg up to Guptagate,
Where working people stand and fight,’
Says he, ‘you'll find me still,’
Says he, ‘you'll find me still.
Accessible, Educational, Radical: The Communist Composer Alan Bush
Andy Croft reviews a new book out about the communist composer Alan Bush.
The composer Alan Bush (1900-95) is usually described as a man of unresolved contradictions, an Establishment figure who was also a dissident, the outsider who enjoyed the comfortable life of the insider. Bush was Professor of Harmony and Composition at the Royal Academy of Music for over half a century but, on at least two occasions, he was blacklisted by the BBC. When his first piano concerto was performed on the BBC Third Programme in 1938, Adrian Boult led the orchestra and choir straight into the national anthem in order to “balance” the revolutionary implications of the chorale finale. And, although his first opera Wat Tyler won the 1951 Festival of Britain opera competition, it was only performed once in Bush’s lifetime in the UK. Like all his operas it was premiered in the GDR.
Joanna Bullivant’s newly published book, the first full-length study of Bush’s life and music, is long overdue and wholly to be welcomed. Despite the inexcusable cover price and a sometimes over-academic introduction, anyone interested in Alan Bush’s music should get their local library to stock it.
The author works hard to rescue Bush from the usual modernist and anti-communist orthodoxies that compare his work unfavourably to composers Benjamin Britten and Michael Tippet, or which routinely claim that he sacrificed his talent for his political commitments. Trying to separate Bush’s music and his politics is impossible, she argues, as both were bound up with his sense of his musical and moral responsibilities in an era of crisis.
At the heart of the book is an account of the many projects in the 1930s and 1940s — most notably the 1939 Festival of Music for the People — in which, working with the London Labour Choral Union and the Workers’ Music Association, Bush tried to take classical music out of the concert hall. There is an excellent discussion of Bush’s Cantata The Winter Journey in relation to Tippet’s A Child of Our Time and Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols and a suggestive comparison of the ritual elements in The Winter Journey and Britten’s Peter Grimes.
Bullivant explores the various competing influences on Bush’s thinking and practice, from Hanns Eisler to Arnold Schoenberg and Christopher Caudwell to Paul Hindemith. And, among Bullivant’s accounts of his four operas, is a fascinating study of the musical components of The Sugar Reapers, his opera about the Guyanese liberation struggle.
She is also good on Bush’s relations with those German composers such as Eisler, Georg Knepler and Ernst Meyer who came to London as political refugees after 1933. And, instead of the usual caricatures of Bush being a pawn of the GDR authorities, she argues that it was the other way round — Bush’s thinking and practice had a significant influence on the socialist state’s musical culture. And, for those critics who have dismissed Bush as a “Stalinist,” Bullivant reminds us that there were two sides to the cold war. According to Bush’s recently released MI5 files, during the so-called phoney war the secretary of the communist party’s William Morris Musical Society was an MI5 agent and when he was co-opted onto the party’s national cultural committee in 1950, his nomination papers were intercepted by MI5 and,in 1957, it prevented Bush travelling to British Guiana in order to research local musical traditions.
The book might have benefited from less theory and more biography, especially concerning Bush’s relationships with his principal librettists‚ among them Montagu Slater, with whom he wrote the Communist Manifesto Centenary pageant in 1948, Randall Swingler, who wrote the text for his first piano concerto and his wife Nancy, who wrote the words for three of his operas. Nevertheless, Bush emerges from this book as a major figure, one whose professional and political life was dedicated to creating a participative musical culture that was accessible, educational, enjoyable and radical.
Alan Bush, Modern Music and the Cold War by Joanna Bullivant (Cambridge University Press, £75). This article first appeared in the Morning Star.
Alan Bush People's Festival of Music
Plagiarism and the Privatisation of Poetry
The Guardian recently ran an article on plagiarism in poetry by Will Storr. Andy Croft, author of two very widely read and influential articles on Culture Matters, The Privatisation of Poetry and Poetry Belongs to Everyone, was interviewed at what was called 'an anarchist bookfair' (actually London's Radical Bookfair).
It is very tempting to reduce these issues to questions of individual blame and shame, as the Guardian article did. However, we believe at Culture Matters that the problem of plagiarism is an inevitable consequence of the capitalistic corruption of poetry. Just as commercially motivated pressures on sportspeople turn essentially social and co-operative activities into matters of individualistic competition and excellence, encouraging cheating and drug-taking, so poetry is deformed and twisted from an essentially social art into a competitive, individualistic activity where new-ness and complete 'originality' is over-rated. This is the root cause of actual and alleged plagiarism.
So we are re-publishing Andy Croft's original article, because it puts all the issues into context. Andy Croft's argument is that poetry is essentially a collective and communist art, with the potential to overcome alienation and increase our sociality and connectedness. It belongs to everyone, cannot be owned nor become property, and is essentially committed to the common good of humanity.
See also Communism by way of the Poem by Alain Badiou, and The Poetry of Common Ownership by Alan Morrison. Further contributions to this important debate are welcome.
The Privatisation of Poetry
‘Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto' - 'I am human, and nothing which is human can be alien to me’ - Marx’s favourite maxim
At the end of the fourth film in the ‘Alien’ franchise, Alien Resurrection (1997), the film’s only two survivors are preparing to visit Earth. Although we have previously been told that it is a toxic ‘shithole’, one of them observes that from a distance the planet looks beautiful. ‘I didn't expect it to be,’ she says, ‘what happens now?’ The other gives a puzzled half-smile and shrugs, ‘I don't know. I'm a stranger here myself.’
The ‘stranger’ is Ellen Ripley, who has been fighting the xenomorph aliens ever since Ridley Scott’s original Alien (1979). Her bewildered description of herself as a ‘stranger’ is one of cinema’s great understatements. For Ripley is a stranger, not only to a planet she has not seen for three hundred years, but to herself. Ripley was killed at the end of the third film, and has been resurrected as a clone with part-alien DNA. She does not yet understand the extent of her humanity or know just how much of an alien she is.
All the human characters are dead at the end of Alien Resurrection. The film’s only other survivor (played by Winona Ryder) is an android. Earlier in the film, when Ripley discovers that her companion is a robot, she observes, ‘I should have known. No human being is that humane.’ This is an idea that has been running through the series since Aliens (1986), when Ripley compares one of her companions to the aliens he is planning to sell to the Company’s weapons division – ‘I don't know which species is worse. You don't see them fucking each other over for a goddamn percentage...’
Alien Resurrection was a bleak fin-de-siecle farewell to a century of violence, avarice, fear and cruelty, and a grim welcome to a new millennium in which we are estranged from each other and from ourselves by exaggerated fears of differences. Ripley is a familiar figure in the twenty-first century – an alien, a homeless exile whose children are dead, a stranger in a strange land.
ALIENATION AND POETRY
The phrase ‘I’m a stranger here myself’ is also a quotation from a song by Kurt Weill (another exile). Written with Ogden Nash for the 1943 Broadway hit One Touch of Venus, the song is a satirical comment on contemporary US life. In the musical, an ancient statue of the Greek goddess of sexual love (played by Mary Martin) comes alive in a New York museum. She is confused by the strangeness of the world in which she finds herself, especially by the apparent absence of love in the cold modern city:
‘Tell me is love still a popular suggestion
Or merely an obsolete art?
Forgive me for asking, this simple question
I'm unfamiliar with this part
I am a stranger here myself.
Please tell me, tell a stranger
My curiosity goaded
Is there really any danger
That love is now out-moded?
I'm interested especially
In knowing why you waste it
True romance is so freshly
With what have you replaced it?’
As a study in alienation, One Touch of Venus may not have been as hard-hitting as The Threepenny Opera or Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, but it was nevertheless clearly shaped by Weill’s experiences in Weimar Germany, where hysterical ideas about ‘aliens’ of course carried toxic political meanings. In the musical it is the non-human alien who understands more about human happiness than the human characters. It is not an exaggeration to say that Venus is both ‘the heart of a heartless world’, and an example of the commodification of desire in a society where ‘all fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away... all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned.’
Which brings us to Marx’s idea of entfremdung, the process by which, in class societies, we are alienated from Nature, from our work, from the products of our work, from each other and from ourselves. Each dramatic new stage of human social, economic and technological development has simultaneously pushed us farther apart from each other and from ourselves – property, slavery, money, territory, caste, class, religion, industrialisation, migration, urbanisation, mechanisation, militarisation, nationalism, empire, computerisation, globalisation...
Of course we all experience this ‘self-estrangement’ differently. As Marx argued in The Holy Family, although ‘the propertied class and the class of the proletariat present the same human self-estrangement,’
‘the former class feels at ease and strengthened in this self-estrangement, it recognizes estrangement as its own power, and has in it the semblance of a human existence. The class of the proletariat feels annihilated, this means that they cease to exist in estrangement; it sees in it its own powerlessness and in the reality of an inhuman existence.’
In a bewildering world where we feel ourselves to be strangers in our own lives, the false consolations of nostalgia, nationalism, chauvinism, religious fundamentalism and racism are tempting to many, especially to those with the least power. Each of these is an illusion ‘which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself’ (during international football tournaments there is always a greater concentration of England flags in those parts of our cities with the smallest economic or political stake in British society). But fearing ‘strangers’ will not make the world less strange; attacking ‘aliens’ cannot mitigate our alienation from ourselves.
On the other hand there are those forces that still pull us together – kinship, friendship, desire, solidarity, collectivity, utopianism, socialism. Despite all the commercial, cultural, social, economic and political pressures to emphasise our uniqueness and our separateness, the differences between us are not very great. We all share the same small planet, we breathe the same air and we share the same fate. And one of the ways in which we demonstrate and feel our common natures is through art. It is not just that creativity can raise individual ‘self-esteem’ or ‘well-being’. All artistic creation, whether individual or collective, amateur or professional, private or public represents a kind of resistance to the complex, centrifugal forces that push us apart. Art is both a reminder of our co-operative origins and a promise of a collective future. Art can be many things – painting, dance, music, literature, sculpture, poetry – but it cannot be property. As soon as a work of art is owned by one individual it is not shared; if it is not shared, then it is not art.
THE POWER OF POETRY
Poetry in particular contains the potential to connect writers to readers, and readers to each other. It can help us feel a little more connected to each other than usual. When any poet stands up to read in public they have to address the readers outside the page, the listeners across the room and beyond. Poetry can remind us what is significant and help us to imagine what is important. It can help to naturalise ideas and arguments by placing them within popular literary traditions. Anticipation and memory implicates reader and listener in the making of a line or a phrase and therefore in the making of the argument. This establishes a potentially inclusive community of interest between the writer/speaker and the reader/ audience – through shared laughter, anger or understanding.
According to George Thompson in Marxism and Poetry:
‘we find in all languages two modes of speech – common speech, the normal, everyday means of communication between individuals, and poetical speech a medium more intense, appropriate to collective acts of ritual, fantastic, rhythmical, magical... the language of poetry is essentially more primitive than common speech, because it preserves in a higher degree the qualities of rhythm, melody, fantasy, inherent in speech as such... And its function is magical. It is designed to effect some change in the external world by mimesis – to impose illusion on reality.’
Over the last five hundred years, poetry has lost many of its historic functions. Character has fled to the novel, dialogue to the stage, persuasion to advertising and public relations, action to cinema, comedy to television. This always seems to me to be an unnecessarily heavy price to pay for the development of the original ‘voice’ of the poet. But the shared, public music of common language and common experience remains its greatest asset – the power to communicate, universalise and shape a common human identity. The power of all poetry is still located in society – in the audience and not in the poet. Writing – in the sense of the composition of memorable language to record events that need remembering – is essentially a shared, collective, public activity. Poetry is essentially a means of communication, not a form of self-expression. Difficulty is only a virtue if the poem justifies the effort to understand it. Why write at all, if no-one is listening? If they think no-one is listening, poets end up talking only to each other, or to themselves. The poet Adrian Mitchell (who once observed that ‘most people ignore most poetry because most poetry ignores most people’) put it like this:
‘In the days when everyone lived in tribes, poetry was always something which was sung and danced, sometimes by one person, sometimes by the whole tribe. Song always had a purpose – a courting song, a song to make the crops grow, a song top help or instruct the hunter of seals, a song to thank the sun. Later on, when poetry began to be printed, it took on airs. When the universities started studying verse instead of alchemy, poetry began to strut around like a duchess full of snuff. By the middle of the twentieth century very few British poets would dare to sing.’
It seems to me that this is still understood at a subterranean level within British society, a long way from the centres of cultural authority and the cult of the ‘new’. Poets like Linton Kwesi Johnson, Kokumo, Moqapi Selassie, Benjamain Zephaniah and Jean Binta Breeze do not read their poems in public – they sing them. The most distinctive feature of an Urdu-Punjabi musha’ara (a marathon poetry-reading) is the level of audience participation. Poets do not always read their ‘own’ work. They often sing. And they are frequently interrupted by applause, by requests for a line to be read again, by the audience guessing the rhyme at the end of a couplet or by joining in the reading of well-known poems. This is a collective, shared poetry, the expression of a literary, linguistic and religious identity among a community whose first language is English, but whose first literary language is Urdu. And musha’ara attract hundreds of people of all ages.
POETRY AND COMMUNISM
There is something comparable about the role of poetry inside prison. Men who would not often go near a library in their ordinary lives, in prison can find solace and encouragement in reading and writing poetry. Prison magazines always carry pages of poetry. The Koestler Awards are an important part of the prison calendar. No-one is embarrassed to say that they like poetry in prison. There are certain poems – usually about love, heroin and regret – that prisoners take with them from one prison to another, copying them out and learning them by heart until the poems ‘belong’ to them.
In other words, the idea that language – and therefore poetry – belongs to everyone, is still felt most vividly among those who have been historically excluded from education and literacy by the forces of caste and class, empire and slavery.
The French Marxist philosopher Alain Badiou has moreover argued that it is not a coincidence that most of the great poets of the twentieth-century were communists (Hikmet, Brecht, Neruda, Eluard, Ritsos, Vallejo, Faiz, MacDiarmid, Aragon, Mayakovsky, Alberti, Darwish, Sanguineti, etc). For Badiou, there exists ‘an essential link between poetry and communism, if we understand “communism” closely in its primary sense’:
‘the concern for what is common to all. A tense, paradoxical, violent love of life in common; the desire that what ought to be common and accessible to all should not be appropriated by the servants of Capital. The poetic desire that the things of life would be like the sky and the earth, like the water of the oceans and the brush fires on a summer night – that is to say, would belong by right to the whole world... it is first and foremost to those who have nothing that everything must be given. It is to the mute, to the stutterer, to the stranger, that the poem must be offered, and not to the chatterbox, to the grammarian, or to the nationalist. It is to the proletarians – whom Marx defined as those who have nothing except their own body capable of work – that we must give the entire earth, as well as all the books, and all the music, and all the paintings, and all the sciences. What is more, it is to them, to the proletarians in all their forms, that the poem of communism must be offered.’
Of course, there are always forces pulling poets in the other direction. Like everything else, poetry is a contested space. The broadsheets, the BBC and most literary festivals are dominated by corporate publishers and a celebrity star-system. The whole apparatus of arts-coverage by press-release, celebrity book-festivals, short-lists, awards and prize-giving ceremonies seems almost designed to alienate as many people as possible from poetry – except as consumers. The result is the victory march of Dullness, characterised by humorlessness, political indifference, a disregard for tradition, a serious underestimation of poetry’s music and a snobbish hostility to amateurs. And all decorated in the usual language of PR disguised as literary criticism (‘sexy’, ‘dark’, ‘sassy’, ‘edgy’, ‘bold’, ‘daring’ etc).
POETRY CAN NEVER BE PROPERTY
Last year I published, at Smokestack Books, a collection of poems by the Newcastle writer Sheree Mack. Sheree’s mother is of Ghanaian and Bajan ancestry; her father is from Trinidad. Laventille told the story of the 1970 Black Power Revolution in Trinidad and Tobago, when for forty-five days an uprising of students, trade unions and the disaffected poor threatened to overthrow the government. It was a courageous and beautiful book, an original attempt to combine history and poetry as a ‘shrine of remembrances’ for the ordinary people behind the headlines.
A few weeks after the book was published Sheree found herself accused of borrowing phrases without attribution from other poets. Most were happy to see elements of their work resurrected and re-made like this, but a few were not. Although I variously offered to insert erratum slips in the book, to reprint the book with the necessary acknowledgements, and to print a new version of the book without the poems in question, Sheree’s accusers seemed more interested in mobilising a howling mob on social-media, armed with the usual pitchforks and burning torches. There followed several weeks of extraordinary personal abuse directed at author and publisher, a feature on Channel 4 News, demands that Sheree should be stripped of her qualifications and sacked from her teaching job, an editorial in Poetry News, and threats of legal action from two corporate publishers. Several festivals withdrew invitations for Sheree to read from the book. Eventually the book was withdrawn from sale and pulped.
I do not believe for a minute that Sheree intended to ‘steal’ anyone else’s work. Some of her borrowings were so obvious that they did not need acknowledging (any more than her poem called ‘What’s Going On?’ did not need to spell out its debt to Marvin Gaye). ‘Laventille Love Song’ for example, did not attempt to disguise its debt to Langston Hughes’ ‘Juke Box Love Song’. The point of the poem was to throw together two different moments in Black history, dialectically linked by the deliberate echoes of one poem in the other.
Sheree’s fault was one of omission and carelessness; the reaction of her accusers was deliberate, hysterical and disproportionate. Sheree made no attempt to conceal her borrowings, she did not profit from them, she has apologised for them repeatedly and she has been excessively punished. No-one has lost anything – except a sense of proportion and decency. Sheree’s faults may be forgiven; the venom of her pursuers is unforgiveable. And a beautiful, revolutionary book has been lost.
I am not interested in calculating how many words a poet may borrow from another writer without being accused of ‘theft’, or swapping examples of successful plagiarists – most notably, of course, Shakespeare, Stendhal and Brecht. (For the record, my last three books were comic verse-novels based on Hamlet, Nineteen Eighty-four and Don Juan.) But I am fascinated by the moral panic around ‘intellectual property’ in the contemporary poetry world, in the way that notions of private property have entered the world of poetry.
Property is a very recent (and contested) innovation in human history, usually used to determine access to scarce or limited resources such as land, buildings, the means of production, manufactured goods and money. It is a shifting concept; not so long ago, women, children and slaves were subject to property law; today we have ‘copyright’, ‘intellectual property’, ‘identity theft’ and ‘image rights’.
There are three kinds of property – common property (where resources are governed by rules which make them available for use by all or any members of the society), collective property (where the community as a whole determines how important resources are to be used), and private property (where contested resources are assigned to particular individuals).
It is difficult to see how the many various elements of any poem – words, phrases, grammatical structures, rhyme and metre, emotional syntax, allusions, echoes, patterns, imagery and metaphor etc – can be described as ‘property’ in any of the above senses (except perhaps ‘common property’). None of these elements are scarce or finite; their use by one person does not preclude their use by any number of others. In an age of mechanical reproduction, it is not possible to ‘steal’ a poem or part of a poem, only to copy it.
POETRY BELONGS TO EVERYONE
All poetry inhabits the common language of everyday living. A poem can be unique without being original; it can be ‘new’ at the same time that it is already known. As the French communist poet Francis Combes has argued:
‘Poetry belongs to everyone. Poetry does not belong to a small group of specialists. It arises from the everyday use of language. Like language, poetry only exists because we share it. Writing, singing, painting, cooking – these are ways of sharing pleasure. For me poetry is like an electrical transformer which converts our feelings and our ideas into energy. It is a way of keeping your feet on the ground without losing sight of the stars. It is at the same time both the world’s conscience and its best dreams; it’s an intimate language and a public necessity.’
Most important human activities are not subject to ideas of ownership. Talking, walking, whistling, running, making love, speaking a foreign language, cooking, playing football, baking bread, dancing, conversation, knitting, drawing – these are all acquired skills which we learn by imitating others, but they are not subject to ideas of ownership.
Historically, poetry was always understood to be much closer to these than to those things that the law regards as ‘property’ (land, money etc). No-one in, say fourteenth-century Italy would have understood the idea of ‘stealing’ a poem. Most cultures, even today, regard poetry as ‘common property’. You don’t hear many ‘original’ poems at an Urdu-Punjabi musha’ara. Everyone borrows/steals/copies/appropriates poetry in prison. Which is another way of saying that everyone owns it. And if everyone owns it, there is nothing to steal.
Until very recently in human history, poets were popularly understood to speak for and to the societies to which they belonged. The development of printing and publishing and the emergence of a reading-public have helped to elevate poets into a separate and professional caste. The Romantic idea of the sensitive individual alienated from ordinary society (by education, sensibility and mobility) has become in our time the cult of the international poet as exile, crossing cultural, intellectual and linguistic borders. This cult reached its logical conclusion a few years ago with the Martian poets, who wrote about life on earth as if they really were aliens.
The current moral panic over ‘plagiarism in poetry’ seems to derive from several overlapping elements – the post-Romantic privatisation of feeling and language, the fetishisation of ‘novelty’ in contemporary culture, half-hearted notions of intellectual property, the long-term consequences of Creative Writing moving from university adult education onto campus as an academic subject, the creation of a large pool of Creative Writing graduates competing for publication, jobs and prizes and the decline in the number of poetry publishers. If poetry is privatised, a personalised form of individual expression rather a means of public communication, then it needs to be policed by ideas of copyright, grammatical rules, unified spelling, critical standards and a canonical tradition.
The witch-hunting of Sheree Mack was an instructive episode in the internal workings of intellectual hegemony. The corporate lawyers and national media only joined the chase after a handful of poets (most of whom had not read Laventille) had already attacked one of their own, in the name of economic forces which are inimical to poetry.
Poetry arises out of the contradictions and consolations of a whole life and a whole society. It requires the proper humility necessary for any art. Poetry is not a Meritocracy of the educated, the privileged or the lucky. It is a Republic. Poetry is indivisible. If it doesn’t belong to everybody, it is something else – show business, big business, self-promotion, attention-seeking, property. As Alain Badiou argues:
‘Poets are communist for a primary reason, which is absolutely essential: their domain is language, most often their native tongue. Now language is what is given to all from birth as an absolutely common good. Poets are those who try to make a language say what it seems incapable of saying. Poets are those who seem to create in language new names to name that which, before the poem, has no name. And it is essential for poetry that these inventions, these creations, which are internal to language, have the same destiny as the mother tongue itself: for them to be given to all without exception. The poem is a gift of the poet to language. But this gift, like language itself, is destined to the common – that is, to this anonymous point where what matters is not one person in particular, but all, in the singular. Thus, the great poets of the twentieth century recognized the grandiose revolutionary project of communism something that was familiar to them – namely that, as the poem gives its inventions to language and as language is given to all, the material world and the world of thought must be given integrally to all, becoming no longer the property of a few but the common good of humanity as a whole.’
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Asserting our shared humanity
Andy Croft reports on his recent visit to Basra, for the Al-Marbed international poetry festival.
I have never seen so many people at a poetry festival before – or so many Kalashnikovs. A few weeks ago I was in the southern Iraqi city of Basra with my friend the Punjabi poet Amarjit Chandan. We were guests of the Iraqi Writers Union for the thirteenth annual Al-Marbed international poetry festival.
‘Poetry is the Present and Future of Basra’ read the banner over the stage in the main hall of the Basra International Hotel where most of the readings were held. Dedicated to the late Iraqi poet and communist Mehdi Mohammad Ali, the festival attracted almost a hundred poets, from Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen, Iran, Kuwait, Sudan, Iraq, Assyria, Lebanon, Syria and the Iraqi diaspora scattered across the world.
During a crowded week of readings and debates, poetry and music, food and friendship, we visited the birthplace of Basra’s most famous poet Badr Shakir al Sayyab, as well as the Basra international football stadium. There was a showing of the film Samt al-Rai/The Silence of the Shepherd introduced by its director Raad Mushatat. One of the festival readings took place on a river cruise on the Shat al-Arab waterway.
The British poetry world likes to think it is popular, with its prizes and awards and celebrities. But this is nothing compared to the role of poetry in Arab culture, where TV shows like Million’s Poet and Prince of Poets regularly attract more viewers than football. Although six million Iraqis – 20% of the population – cannot read or write, the idea that poetry is a publicly-owned, shared and common language somehow persists across all classes. At some of the evening readings, there must have been a thousand people, men and women, young and old. One of the most striking performances was by a six year old boy reciting, entirely from memory, a ten minute long poem comparing Iraq to a beautiful woman.
Although Amarjit and I did not know the literal meaning of many of the poems, we were able to concentrate on the richness of their different cadences and rhythms. Thanks to our hard working translators we were also introduced to the work of some fascinating poets, including Iraqi poets Abdulkareem Kasid and Chawki Abdelamir, Hani al-Selwy from Yemen, Mojtaba Al Tatan from Bahrain, Sabah Kasim, Najah Ibrahim, and Souzan Ibrahim from Syria, and Al Wathiq Younis from Sudan.
But of course the festival was taking place in a deadly context. Iraq is still at war. The billboards by the side of the roads advertise, not consumer goods, but the faces of young men killed fighting Daesh. Each night I was woken by the sound of gunfire to mark the repatriation of local boys killed fighting in Mosul. A notice outside the new shopping centre in Times Square solemnly reminds shoppers, ‘No smoking. No weapons’.
With a heavily armed security presence at most of the readings, it was hardly surprising that the festival was a serious-minded affair. There were no stand-up poets, comics or performance poets. Instead most of the poets recited long poems usually about the suffering and grief of the Iraqi people.
An old man read a poem about the death of his son, killed fighting in Fallujah. One poet compared Iraqi children to a forest of young trees cut down before they are full grown. Another observed that every Iraqi child grows up with an older brother called Death. There was a long poem about a local teacher injured by a Daesh car-bomb; although she managed to crawl out of the car, her clothes were on fire (which meant that her modesty before God was threatened) so she climbed back into the burning car to die. Another poet described the poor of the world as the fuel that keeps the fires of war burning. The prayers of the religious, he said, do not belong to God, only the tears of a mother grieving for her dead child.
It is more important than ever that we understand as much as we can about our neighbours on this small planet. Despite the commercial, ideological, cultural and political pressures to emphasise our uniqueness and our separateness, the differences between us are not very great. The Al-Marbed poetry festival is a brave and important reminder that poetry is one of the ways in which we can enjoy and explore those differences and at the same time assert our shared humanity.
This article was first published in the Morning Star.
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Long live those who died like dogs
Andy Croft reminds us of the radicalism of the early Dadaist movement.
A hundred years after the Cabaret Voltaire first opened its doors in Zurich, it is hard to remember just how shocking, how provocative and how radical the early Dadaist movement once was. Their extraordinary innovations in performance and technique are now commonplace and barely noticed gestures in the worlds of advertising and corporate culture. One of the most important art movements of the twentieth-century is routinely gutted of its radicalism and reduced to the status of an ‘inheritance track’ for Malcolm McLaren, Vic Reeves and Lady Gaga.
In their centenary year it is especially important to remind ourselves how the Dadaists emerged out of intellectual opposition to the Great War, and how far and how quickly the movement spread across Europe in its aftermath. One of the Dada manifestos was written by the French writer Louis Aragon:
No more painters, no more writers, no more musicians, no more sculptors, no more religions, no more republicans, no more royalists, no more imperialists, no more anarchists, no more socialists, no more Bolsheviks, no more politicians, no more proletarians, no more democrats, no more armies, no more police, no more nations, no more of these idiocies, no more, no more, NOTHING, NOTHING, NOTHING...
Like many of the original Dadaists (including Tristan Tzara, Paul Éluard and Andre Breton), Aragon was later a member of the French Communist Party and active in the French Resistance during the Second World War. But in the early 1920s, it seemed to Aragon and to other radical writers and artists that Nihilism was the only rational and revolutionary response to the industrialised slaughter of the Great War.
The Flemish writer Paul van Ostaijen (1896-1928) first met Dadaism in Berlin in 1919, where he witnessed the suppression of the Spartacist uprising. Although Van Ostaijen is too little known in the UK, he was one of the most original and influential Belgian writers of the twentieth century. An avant-garde poet, satirist and revolutionary critic, he opened up Flemish poetry to modern city life, introduced Expressionism into Belgium, and was the first writer to translate Kafka from German.
Van Ostaijen’s most important work was the epic poem Occupied City/Bezette Stad, now published for the first time in English, in a translation by David Colmer (Smokestack Books, £12):
Nihil in every direction / Nihil in every family / Nihil in every language and every dialect / NIHIL in every symbol / rotating nihil / nihil in saltire... rotating nihil / square nihil / triangular nihil / pyramidal NIHIL...
When Occupied City was first published in 1921 it was advertised as ‘a book devoid of Biblical beauty / a book for royalists and republicans / for doctors and illiterates / a book that lists every important song of the last ten years / in short: as indispensable as a cookbook / “What every girl should know.”’
It is impossible to do justice to this extraordinary work simply by quoting from it, since the book was designed and illustrated by the Flemish artist Oscar Jespers as a work of ‘rhythmical typography’, a huge, crazy, irreverent poem for a noisy chorus of many voices in as many different languages, a riot of type-faces all exploding in every direction across the pages. Above is an example, an image of Dead Sunday, one of the poems in the collection. And here is an ‘extract’ from the poem about the German occupation of Antwerp during the First World War, which van Ostaijen experienced at first-hand:
plane machine-guns / rattle / sifting the routed army / criss cross flight / Rout spouting pus on occupied city / millions of seconds of war fermenting / officers’ whips cracking weaker / words growing waxing RAGING / murmuring / liPs SeiZing WoRDs / while restless / tick-tock machine-guns BROKEN Cadence / in der Heimat in der Heimat / villages / staggering / sinking... fermenting growing fermenting / GUSHING words / muffling the last weak sound of shells / words CRaSHing to PieceS on RoCKs / spurt ditch blood / WO R D / state street city soldiers.
But Occupied City is more than a typographic novelty or a museum-piece. It is a sustained attack on monarchism, militarism and patriotism and a declaration of war on post-1918 Europe (Karl Liebknecht makes a brief appearance in the poem):
national anthems / national heroes / national colours / everything national / hip hip hoorah for the royal vulva / Vive la nation / ecstasy gentlemen / don’t forget ecstasy / cadavers rotting sewers / Tous les soirs grande manifestation patriotique / hopeless skelter the soldiers are dead / patriotic films / patriotic beer / patriotic lamb / LONG LIVE THE HEROES / everything is meaningless / now / crap / LONG LIVE THOSE WHO DIED LIKE DOGS.
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Andy Croft wrote The Privatisation of Poetry for Culture Matters a few months ago, and it has been amongst the most popular and influential articles on the site. He has attracted a good deal of criticism for his application of communist philosophy to poetry. Here, in an article republished from The Argotist Online, he defends and extends the thesis advanced in that article. See also Alain Badiou, Communism by Way of the Poem, and Alan Morrison, The Poetry of Common Ownership.
Q. Is there a difference between allusion and plagiarism?
The difference seems to be measured simply by the varying noise levels of approval or outrage. If readers and reviewers think that they recognise most of the sources that inform the work of a well-known writer, then they are applauded as ‘allusive’, ‘inter-textual’ and ‘ludic’. Anything else is ‘plagiarism’.
Personally I have never been remotely interested in ‘plagiarism’ scandals, which always seem to me to demean everyone involved, like excitable children accusing each other of copying. All poets writing in English use the same language, the same alphabet and the same grammatical structure. We are all inheritors of the same literary traditions. We all drink from the same well. No poet should be so lacking in humility as to think that they can ever write anything that is ‘original’. All any of us can ever hope to do is to restate in a contemporary idiom what has already been said, probably by much better poets than we can ever be. An original poem is as impossible as an original colour. Which is perhaps why, for all the current emphasis on poets finding their ‘voice’, so many contemporary poets sound the same...
The intellectual content of a poem may be a slightly different issue. But how many poets can you think of whose work is intellectually ‘original’? And how many original ideas do any of us ever have? Unless you are Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Marx or Einstein, I think it is probably wise not to demand that other people should be original in their thinking. Anyway, the achievement of even these men would have been impossible without the work of their predecessors; as Newton put it, ‘if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.’ In the circumstances, it seems to me that those poets who gaily accuse others of lacking ‘originality’ should look again at their own work with a bit more humility.
Perhaps we can return to the question of originality later. But let’s grant for the moment that originality in any form isn’t possible and agree that all we can do is restate what has already been said. Doesn’t the hope to which you point – to ‘restate’ existing ideas in new language, to see further than our predecessors – imply that a poet can fail to restate what’s already been said and simply repeat it? That he or she can fail to ‘see further’ and rather see the same thing as another poet and call it new? Milton in his Eikonclastes wrote, ‘For such kind of borrowing as this, if it be not better'd by the borrower, among good Authors is accounted Plagiarie.’ If you don’t want to call inept or inartistic borrowing ‘plagiarism,’ I can accept that. Perhaps we could agree to call it a bad poem or say it’s not poem at all or that it (or the best part of it) is someone else’s poem. In any case, don’t poets (or ‘poets’) who liberally borrow from other poets and fail to improve on the original fail at the thing you seem to think a poem at the very least should do?
Yes, of course. The fear of repeating oneself, never mind other people, must be a constant for all writers. But notions of ‘originality’ are relative. I have spent too many years working in primary schools and in prisons not to know that what may seem derivative, clichéd, tired or borrowed to some readers, can feel like an exciting and original achievement to others. The ability to ‘see further than our predecessors’ is largely dependent on education and cultural access. A cliché is only a cliché if you have read it before. In one sense, the making of any poem, no matter how clumsy or derivative, is to be celebrated. As the Chilean poet Nicanor Parra put it, ‘In poetry everything is permitted. // With only this condition of course, / You have to improve the blank page.’ How many of us can confidently say to ourselves that we always do that?
Q. Are there different kinds of plagiarism? If so, are some forms of plagiarism better, more creative, or more interesting than others? Are there forms that are less creative or interesting in your view?
The work that goes into writing any poem is impossible to quantify. First, there is a life-time of reading, thinking, listening, talking and understanding; second, the conscious effort to concentrate an idea, fix a memory or crystallise a feeling in words; third, the patient struggle with the organisation, shape and form of the words on the page and the sound of their music in your head; fourth, a series of critical judgements as to when the work is finished; fifth, an evaluation of the poem’s likely relationship with other readers. Buried somewhere inside all this are the various stages at which the poet consciously and unconsciously uses their various source materials, internal and external. Who can judge which part of the process, or which versions, are more ‘creative’ than others? Who cares? The only question that should concern us, is whether a poem is as good as it can be, given the circumstances of the writer, the writing and its reception.
Q. So are you saying that readers of poetry can’t draw from established critical standards (of whatever sort) or form new standards in order to evaluate the quality of poetry? It seems disingenuous to imply that every poem is as good as every other poem as long as it’s ‘as good as it can be.’ A good limerick is a good limerick, but I don’t think many people would agree that a good limerick, however good, is as good as a good sestina. Analogously, there are better and worse examples of poetic borrowing and more skilful – more artful – ways of drawing on our shared poetic past or from contemporary works. Many poets who borrow lines, ideas, or images and wish to do so skilfully include notes in their books that indicate their sources, especially if those sources are less well known. Does a poet have the obligation to ‘cite’ her sources in some way if she is borrowing material? Is there a certain amount of material or threshold that warrants acknowledgement, particularly if the source is contemporary?
There are so many obstacles between any poem and any reader; signposts on the page like title, epigraph, acknowledgement, glossary etc can only help. Unless of course, they are too obvious, distracting or cumbersome. Personally I am not interested in calculating how many words a poet may borrow from another writer without being accused of ‘theft’, or swapping examples of successful plagiarists – most notably, of course, Shakespeare, Stendhal and Brecht. And just for the record, my last three books were comic verse-novels based on Hamlet, Nineteen Eighty-four and Don Juan.
Clearly in the present climate everyone has to be careful to cover their backs to avoid being dragged into the next public row with the self-appointed commissars now sniffing around the poetry world for unattributed borrowings. A few months ago, at a book-launch in Nottingham, I read a new poem of mine called ‘The Sailors of Ulm’. Before doing so I explained that the poem is supposed to ‘echo’ Louis MacNeice’s ‘Thalassa’, and that the title refers to Lucio Magri’s history of the PCI, Il Sarto di Ulm, which itself was a reference to Brecht’s poem ‘The Tailor of Ulm’. By way of apology for such a laboured introduction, I joked that I was covering myself in case there was anyone in the audience from the poetry-police. The following day one of the principal witch-hunters in the Laventille affair (who was not there) e-mailed the organisers of the reading to ask if he could confirm that I had insulted the poetry police.
But how do you argue that a good sestina is ‘better’ than a limerick? The world is full of entertaining limericks and dull, clanking sestinas. I can think of many occasions when I would rather read a good limerick than a sestina. And if anyone doubts the value of a good limerick, I can do no better than recommend The Limerickiad, Smokestack Books’ three volume (soon to be four) raucous, clever history of Eng Lit in limericks by Martin Rowson.
Anyway, who is comparing? What is the point of the comparison? In what way is a sestina ‘better’ than a limerick? What is the measure? The amount of time needed to read them? The amount of ink required to write them? If a sestina is ’better’ than a limerick, how does it compare to a villanelle? Personally I have always found terza rima difficult to write, but ottava rima enjoyable to read; so how can I say which form is ‘better’? Is anyone prepared to argue that the iambic foot used in most sestinas is superior to the amphibrach of the limerick? Or are we making a judgement about the relative seriousness of the subject-matter usually carried by the two forms? But who says that light-verse is inferior to ‘heavy’ verse? This sounds like the old university senior common-room game of Golden Poets and Silver Poets, Major and Minor, Gentlemen and Players.
The pressure to evaluate and grade poems and poets seems to me to be both unattractive and pointless. What is ‘better’, a motorbike or a banana? It depends if you are in a hurry or if you are hungry.
Q. I think the Milton quote referred to earlier might clear Shakespeare, Stendahl, and Brecht from the label of plagiarist and I’m assuming whatever source materials you drew from for your verse novel, 1948, were in some way skilfully acknowledged. But to return to your answer to the previous question, there seem to be many people who care whether large or small portions of other peoples’ poems end up in another poet’s work, namely poets who find their work published under another person’s name. Let’s pose a hypothetical situation and consider 1948. I notice that both you and the illustrator of the book retained your copyright. Would you be comfortable with someone reprinting unattributed portions of the book under their name or repurposing the images in an uncreative context (i.e. not as part of a new work of art that transforms the source material but ‘as is’ or with slight modification) without attribution?
The copyright statement inside 1948 was put in by the publisher. If somebody seriously wanted to copy some or all of the 150 onyeginskaya sonnets in 1948 I would be flattered. First of all it would mean that someone had read the damn thing! Secondly it would presumably mean that they had enjoyed the book enough to want to do this. And if they were able to ‘improve’ on the original then good luck to them. It certainly won’t earn them any money!
My impression is that those who are most outraged by revelations or accusations of plagiarism in the poetry world are not usually the ‘victims’, but other would-be writers who feel that their own route to literary success is suddenly compromised. What is the point of spending all those years on Creative Writing programmes developing their unique ‘individual’ voice if it turns out that it is not to so exclusively theirs after all?
Q. A follow up to the previous question: How do you handle copyright at your own press? Most Creative Commons licenses require at the minimum attribution credit for material designated for reuse or repurposing. But they do have a ‘No Rights Reserved’ option (CC0) (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/). Would you consider publishing your work or the work of your authors under a ‘No Rights Reserved’ Creative Commons license? Would your authors be comfortable with seeing their poems published in a journal under another poet’s name?
I don’t know – I’m not a lawyer! I have run Smokestack Books for twelve years single-handedly and unpaid. In this time I have published 110 titles and sold almost 30k books. I do not have the time, the energy, or the interest to pursue this kind of stuff about copyright. All Smokestack titles carry the usual statement about the author retaining copyright to their work. As far as I am concerned it is a formality. If I am approached by an editor who wants to include a poem by a Smokestack author in an anthology I pass this request to the poet.
Q. Let’s shift topics for a minute. To what degree does the economic structure of the ‘poetry business’ -- a structure which may lead a poet to feel pressured to produce a certain amount or certain kind of work in order to secure grants or academic employment -- contribute to what your average person might call poetic plagiarism (an instance in which a poet takes another poet's work and with little or no modification and claims authorship)?
The narrow economics of the contemporary poetry scene in the UK undoubtedly encourages the idea of poetry as property. This seems to me to be a wholly pernicious idea, inimical to genuine creativity. It derives in part from the way that the broadsheets, the BBC, the corporate festivals and the prize-giving circus create and maintain a hierarchy of poets (and a hierarchical idea of poetry) based on the lists of corporate publishers. It is also a result of the way that so many poets much further down the food chain these days make a poor living as part-time Creative Writing teachers in universities.
It is worth remembering that Creative Writing in the UK emerged as an academic subject a long time before universities realised that they could make money out of it. When I worked for Leeds University in the early 1980s I was told that I couldn’t teach Creative Writing because it was not a ‘proper academic subject’. Eventually I was permitted to teach it, but only as part of a special programme of free courses designed for unemployed people in Middlesbrough (a long way from the university). Of course, Leeds University, like all UK universities, now runs undergraduate and post-graduate degree programmes in Creative Writing. But I don’t imagine that many unemployed people can afford them.
The origins of Creative Writing in the UK lie a long way from Higher Education – in Adult Education, Women’s Education, community arts and organisations like the Federation of Worker Writers and Community Publishers. The sudden and distorting presence of the universities in the poetry economy has brought with it the imported ideas of intellectual property, critical hierarchies, career-structures as well as the instincts of corporate lawyers.
If poetry is a commodity, it needs to be policed (grammatical rules, unified spelling, critical standards, canonical tradition etc). And before it can be sold, it has to be owned (copyright and intellectual property etc). There is a direct connection, I think, between the commodification of poetry and the privatisation of poetry as a personalised form of individual expression rather a means of public communication.
Q. Hold on now! Poets have proclaimed their originality and criticized others for taking credit for their or other poets’ work (in whole or in part) since antiquity. But, again, let’s stay with the current topic and restate this last question. Does the poet who chooses to be a part of the of the contemporary ‘poetry business,’ a business which is predicated on the traffic of poems that contain ‘the original ‘voice’ of the poet,’ as you put it, or of the deliberate (and acknowledged) subversion of such ‘voice’ poems, have the obligation to make clear what it is that they are purveying within that marketplace?
No. Poetry is not a marketplace and a poem is not a commodity to be bought and sold.
Perhaps I may be allowed to regurgitate something I have previously written (self-plagiarism?) on this issue. Property is a very recent (and contested) innovation in human history, usually used to determine access to scarce or limited resources such as land, buildings, the means of production, manufactured goods and money. It is a shifting concept; not so long ago, women, children and slaves were subject to property law. Today we have ‘copyright’, ‘intellectual property’, ‘identity theft’, ‘image rights’ – and the ludicrous spectacle of a chain of British opticians claiming legal ownership over the word ‘Should’ve’, while a Danish brewery apparently owns the copyright to the word ‘probably’.
It is difficult to see how the many various elements of any poem – words, phrases, grammatical structures, rhyme and metre, emotional syntax, allusions, echoes, patterns, imagery and metaphor etc – can be described as ‘property’ in any of the above senses, except perhaps ‘common property’. None of these elements are scarce or finite; their use by one person does not preclude their use by any number of others. In an age of mechanical reproduction, it is not possible to ‘steal’ a poem or part of a poem, only to repeat it.
All poetry inhabits the common language of everyday living. A poem can be unique without being original; it can be ‘new’ at the same time that it is already known. As my friend the French poet Francis Combes has argued:
Poetry belongs to everyone. Poetry does not belong to a small group of specialists. It arises from the everyday use of language. Like language, poetry only exists because we share it. Writing, singing, painting, cooking – these are ways of sharing pleasure. For me poetry is like an electrical transformer which converts our feelings and our ideas into energy. It is a way of keeping your feet on the ground without losing sight of the stars. It is at the same time both the world’s conscience and its best dreams; it’s an intimate language and a public necessity.
Historically, poetry was always understood to be much closer to these than to those things that the law regards as ‘property’ (land, money etc). No one in, say, fourteenth-century Italy would have understood the idea of ‘stealing’ a poem. Most cultures, even today, regard poetry as ‘common property’. Which is another way of saying that everyone owns it. And if everyone owns it, there is nothing to steal.
There are so many interesting things here I’d like to ask you about. But first, as a point of fact, poets in fourteenth century Italy would definitely have understood the idea of stealing a poem, although what they thought was important was the formal structure of the canzone. ‘Theirs was a literature that strove for originality of form almost above all else,’ Chambers notes in his Introduction to Old Provencal. As an example of this concern, he quotes elsewhere in his book the 12th century troubadour Peire d'Alvernhe’s line, ‘never was a song good or of any value which resembled the songs of another.’
But I think that it would be rather difficult to write a history of, say, Blues or Folk Music in these terms. And there are many poetic traditions – Urdu for example – which rely very heavily on shared phrases and commonly used figures of speech.
Anyone who enjoys generic fiction will tell you that part of the pleasure of this kind of reading is the recognition of its familiar patterns. Not many readers of westerns or hospital romances, for example, will thank an author for radically disrupting their expectations of the form.
One of the reasons I write almost entirely in traditional stanzas – metrically precise, rhymingly obsessive, formal straight-jackets – is the creation of a shared, anticipated music with the listener. It is like joining a traditional dance with complicated steps that everyone knows. This only works if each new song in some way ‘resembles’ the songs of others.
Q. But I’m glad you brought up this period of literary history because I think it prompts a really interesting question about the complicated relationship throughout history between authorship and originality and ownership and ‘the marketplace,’ however we define that. We find these complications in Greece in Pindar’s work and at Rome in Martial’s (who first brought the notion of ‘plagiary’ – kidnapping – into a literary context). We find it the Renaissance when the word ‘plagiary’ first enters English. And of course we find it today.
Whether we want to call it originality or not, authorship and being recognized as the author of a work seems to be central to poets’ self-understanding to this day, even among the communist poets you refer to in your essay and among those who largely agree with your points about language and poetry.
A case in point might be the American novelist Jonathan Lethem, who was interviewed after the publication of his excellent essay, ‘The Ecstasy of Influence,’ which makes many of the same points you’ve made about language, the commons, and the impossibility of writing anything fully original. In an interview following it (forgive the long quote), he clarified his views on originality, saying, ‘I think originality is a word of praise for things that have been expressed in a marvellous way and that make points of origin for any particular element beside the point. When you read Saul Bellow or listen to Bob Dylan sing, you can have someone point to various cribbings and it won’t matter, because something has been arrived at which subsumes and incorporates and transcends these matters. In that way, sourcing and originality are two sides of the same coin, they’re a nested partnership.’ He goes on to expand on what he means by ‘originality’ by relating it to the notion of ‘surprise’: ‘You want to feel surprised. If my description proposes some sort of dutiful, grinding, crossword puzzle work—‘let me take some Raymond Chandler here and graft it to some Philip K. Dick over here’—that’s horrendous. You, the author, want to experience something that feels surprising and uncanny and native. You want to take all your sourcing and turn it into an experience that—for you first and foremost, and then of course for the reader—feels strong or urgent in a way that mimics some kind of natural, automatic process.’
All of this leads me to a two-part question. First, as opposed to what we might call a ‘strong’ notion of originality, one that sees authors as capable of coming up with wholly original thoughts and expressions over which they can claim total ownership, Lethem seems to be putting forward what we might call a ‘weak’ notion of originality, one that emphasizes the author’s ability to surprise herself and us regardless of source material. I’m interested in what you might think of Lethem’s take on the word ‘originality,’ which in spirit seems to be not that far from Milton.
Second, from the perspective of Lethem’s ‘weak’ notion of originality, it seems like you’re conflating ‘strong’ notions of ‘originality’ and ‘ownership’ – possessiveness over property rights – with ‘authorship’ and ‘originality’ in the weaker sense – surprisingly marvelous writing and the pride that comes with such accomplishment. You criticize those who decry plagiarism as defenders of private property because you believe that a poem is not a commodity that can be bought or sold and that it’s on these strong grounds that they base their objections. But is it fair to say that it’s on those grounds that most people find the plagiarist pathetic? Mightn’t the objectors to plagiarism/inept borrowing/bad poems (however we want to describe unsurprising writing) be objecting to the plagiarist’s false (and rather sad) claims of authorship and his implicit denial of others’ surprising achievements (however modest) rather than any violation of notions of ownership?
I like the concept of ‘surprising’ writing, although it has to be said British literary culture seems interested only in ‘unsurprising’ writing at the moment. I don’t know Jonathan Lethem’s work, or this essay, but it sounds like a very useful account of my sense of the way I write. During the two days we have been conducting this conversation by e-mail, I have also been writing an obituary, proof-reading a children’s novel, copy-editing an anthology of poetry and trying to finish a poem about the refugee crisis in Europe. I have also written about sixty e-mails and half a dozen letters. But I don’t think that it is true to say that I have been exercising a ‘weak’ originality for most of the time and saving my ‘strong’ originality only for the poem (especially as it borrows, self-consciously, some phrases from Byron’s Childe Harold). Or does such deliberate – and irreverent – borrowing represent a kind of ‘strong’ originality in itself? Which kind of ‘originality’ are you and I using in this conversation?
And why should the poetry world suddenly be the focus of these questions about ownership. Why now? Why poetry? Why not the worlds of, say, ventriloquism, athletics, topiary or pottery? Who benefits from the importation of this legal vocabulary into poetry?
The current moral panic over ‘plagiarism in poetry’ seems to me to derive from several overlapping elements – the post-Romantic privatisation of feeling and language, the fetishisation of ‘novelty’ in contemporary culture, half-hearted notions of intellectual property, the long-term consequences of Creative Writing moving from university adult education onto campus as an academic subject, the professionalization of poetry, and the creation of a large pool of Creative Writing graduates competing for publication, jobs and prizes at the same time as a catastrophic decline in the number of poetry publishers.
The result is an unpleasantly competitive poetic culture, once described by the poet Sean O’Brien as a bunch of ‘ferrets fighting for mastery of a septic tank.’ If there were any money involved it would be tragic. But considering the tiny amounts of money that anyone ever earns from poetry in the UK, there is something grimly comical about poets accusing each other of stealing something which belongs to everyone.
Short story: Snig
Snig was always losing things. One day he lost his hat. The next day he lost his umbrella. When he put things down, he forgot where he had put them. When he picked things up, he forgot to put them down. He was very forgetful. Sometimes Snig thought he had lost his memory. But where had he put it? He couldn’t remember. Poor little Snig.
It wasn’t much fun being Snig. He wanted to have fun, but the other silly creatures kept all the fun to themselves. Some people have all the fun. And they wouldn’t share it with Snig. When Snig complained, they said he was spoiling everyone else’s fun. They said he had lost his sense of humour.
Perhaps they were right. Snig used to have a sense of humour. But he didn’t know where he had put it. He looked under the bed. He looked in the cupboard. He looked in his pockets. But he just couldn’t find it anywhere. It wasn’t funny. Poor little Snig.
He tried to be patient. But his patience was wearing thin, especially when the other silly creatures called him names. Snig didn’t know what to say.
‘Lost your tongue! Lost your tongue!’ they shouted. ‘Loser! Loser!’
Snig’s patience finally snapped. Ow! That hurt!
Snig ran away into the forest and bumped into a tree. Ow! That hurt too.
He tripped over a root. Ow! So did that.
He sat down on some nettles. Ow! And that.
Poor little Snig had hurt his feelings.
And now he had lost his patience. Snig looked everywhere in the forest for it. He looked high and low, but he couldn’t find it. He looked down and out. But he still couldn’t find it. Snig looked up at the silvery stars and the cold and lonely moon and closed his eyes. He felt sad that he had lost his patience. It was even worse than losing his sense of humour. But where had he put it? Snig walked deeper into the forest to find his patience.
‘Are you looking for trouble?’ asked the grizzly bears.
‘Certainly not,’ said Snig. He didn’t want any trouble.
‘Are you looking for an argument?’ asked the prickly bushes.
‘Certainly not,’ said Snig. He didn’t want an argument.
‘Are you looking for a fight?’ asked the wild flowers.
‘Certainly not,’ said Snig. He didn’t want a fight.
By now it was cold and dark. Poor little Snig was all alone in the middle of the forest. He didn’t know which way to go. It wasn’t fair. Why was he always losing things? First he lost his hat and his umbrella. Then he lost his sense of humour. He had lost his tongue. He had lost his patience. And now he had lost his way. The other silly creatures were right after all. Snig was just a loser.
Snig continued walking into the forest. After a while he met a creature who looked very hot and bothered. ‘Have you seen my patience?’ asked Snig.
‘I’d like to help you,’ said the hot and sweaty creature, ‘but I’ve lost my cool, and I need to find it.’ He started sweating again and ran off.
Snig continued walking into the forest. After a while he met a creature who kept falling over. ‘Have you seen my patience?’ asked Snig.
‘I’d like to help you,’ said the clumsy creature, ‘but I’ve lost my nerve, and I need to find it.’ He fell over again and ran off.
Snig continued walking into the forest. After a while he met a very thin creature. ‘Have you seen my patience?’ asked Snig.
‘I’d like to help you,’ said the very thin creature, ‘but I’ve lost my appetite, and I need to find it.’ He rubbed his thin ribs and ran off.
Snig sat down under a tree and tried to sleep. It was cold. Brrr! Just then it started raining. Snig wished he had brought his hat and his umbrella. But then he remembered he had lost them. Poor little Snig.
When Snig thought about his hat, he felt a hot tear roll down his face. When he thought about his umbrella, another tear rolled down his face. He thought about his sense of humour and his patience. And he cried and he cried and he cried.
Snig was still crying when he arrived home. The other silly creatures were running around, having all the fun, as usual. When they saw Snig they stopped and pointed at him.
‘Loser! Loser!’ they shouted. Snig tried to ignore them.
‘Loser! Loser!’ they shouted, more loudly. Snig pretended he couldn’t hear them
‘Loser! Loser!’ they shouted louder and louder.
This was too much for Snig. He looked up at the silvery stars and the cold and lonely moon, closed his eyes and began to frown.
‘He’s lost his manners,’ said one of the other silly creatures.
The frown turned into a moan.
‘He’s lost his marbles,’ said another.
The moan turned into a groan.
‘He’s lost the plot,’ said another.
Then the frown turned into a growl. And the growl turned into a great big ROAR!
‘I’ve NOT lost my manners!’ roared Snig. ‘I’ve NOT lost my marbles. And I’ve NOT lost the plot! But I have lost something else. Look – I’ve lost my temper!’ And he roared and he roared and he roared so loudly that all the other silly creatures lost their balance and fell over on their bottoms with a bump. Ow! That hurt!
Snig smiled. The smile turned into a grin. The grin turned into a giggle. And the giggle turned into a great big barrel of laughs. HO! HO! HO!
‘Look!’ laughed Snig, ‘I’ve found my sense of humour!’ And he laughed and laughed at the other silly creatures. He laughed so much that he lost his balance and fell over on his bottom. Ow! That hurt!
The other silly creatures began to smile. The smile turned into a grin. The grin turned into a giggle. And the giggle turned into another great big barrel of laughs. HA! HA! HA! Snig wasn’t a loser after all. He was just like them.
Snig was still laughing when he felt something inside his coat. He put his hand in his pocket. ‘Look!’ he laughed, ‘I’ve found my hat and umbrella! They were here all the time!’
And so Snig stood to his feet, put on his hat, picked up his umbrella and started to hop. And the hop turned into a skip. And the skip turned into a jump. And the jump turned into a dance.
When the other silly creatures saw this they stood to their feet and followed Snig. And soon they were all lost in the dance as they hopped and skipped and jumped together beneath the silvery stars and the cold and lonely moon.
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Highway Review Committee gathering info for report
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The Highway Review Committee tasked with examining all aspects of the controversial Debe to Mon Desir segment of the San Fernando to Point Fortin Highway is progressing well in their quest to complete their report in the stipulated time frame. President of the Joint Consultative Council for the construction industry Afra Raymond, in a phone interview with the T&T Guardian, said he expects the committee will complete their report by early February.
Raymond said the review committee is hard at work and the JCC had no other comment to make at this time on the issue but will release another statement this week. Minister of Works and Infrastructure Emmanuel George said the ministry gave the review committe all the documents it requested through its project manager at the National Infrastructure Development Company Ltd (Nidco).
George said he has not met with the committee yet. “Given how important this is, they will keep the deadline set,” he assured. In a brief phone interview with the T&T Guardian last week, environmental activist and University of the West Indies’ lecturer Dr Wayne Kublalsingh said the Highway Re-route Movement had a seven-hour meeting with the committee on January 12.
He said they met again with the committee on Friday and the movement’s final submission is scheduled for this week. Kublalsingh said the movement submitted reports two Saturdays ago when he also made a short presentation to the committee.
“The review committee is working hard despite time constraints. They have to ascertain the correctness of the information before them. They are doing a professional job so far. As far as I know they are still collecting information,” he said. Kublalsingh said different teams within the review committee are working on different areas and to his knowledge the report is being prepared.
Until the report was completed, he said, all parties have agreed to give only general information to the media. He said all details will be divulged at the end of the 60 days with the completed report submitted to the Government and the public. Dr James Armstrong, chairman of the review committee said all questions should be directed to the JCC, as he was doing the review on behalf of the organisation and was responsible for overseeing the work of all the consultants.
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BOB BELAND – Left Of Center
Wrong Way Works 2017
Looking for an angle to roll a third stone from the Sun, Los Angeles songwriter claims a stake to terra firma.
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Bob Beland’s been around for four decades, both as a bands member and a solo act, but he never really registered with a wider, on a world scale, population, a situation “Left Of Center” is likely to remedy. Scrabble elements and a selfie on this album’s cover are a mere reflection of what’s going on underneath, as the record is a sort of puzzle, and if the listener’s able to pick up all the pieces to fit together, a picture emerges that is, yes, slightly left field or even disturbing. Which is why, perhaps, some reassurance might be in order, and “It’s Alright With Me, Mr. Bob” addresses such worries – even though it was laid down long before our times of turmoil, in 1983 – in a call-and-response fashion set to the steady, celebratory beat of Burundi-like drums, while the unhurried pace of “Off The Handle” contradicts the cut’s title in a way Ray Davies would approve of.
Excelling in humor, Beland’s songs range from a pure piano ballad “One Bright Burning” to saloon vaudeville ditty “Sloppy Joe” which marry aloof Americana to British eccentricity. So “The Lost Highway” might be melodically dry, yet there’s a stinging electric guitar pouring psychedelia into the mix, whereas the listing of rhythm-and-blues classics in, well, an R&B number “Some Friends Of Mine” is underpinned with a brass section and one of those buddies, Bobby Pickett’s bass. After that it’s strange to see “Who’ll Save The World?” welcome both idealism and cynicism – strange, until its link to opener gets revealed, and Mr. Bob comes centerstage as an unlikely hero to embrace savior possibilities. On music level, it works; so give the man a lever and a place to stand, and he’ll move the Earth.
****1/4
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Mrs Doubtfire is Patriarchy in Action.
Tag: gender stereotyping
High School Musical: Disney Goes Feminist
Granted High School Musical 3 has a rather unnecessary number of shots of Sharpay Evans’ arse and there is a very clear evidence of bullying by the two main male leads: Troy Bolton and Chad Danforth who steal the clothes of two younger classmates and make them chase them through the school dressed only in towels. In HS-land this gets the bullied boys detention. In my-land, it gets the two bullies an in-school suspension and a ban from participation in after school activities because it constitutes sexual harassment. And, I can’t even begin to describe the horror which is the Tiki song in High School Musical 2: racism a go-go there.
There are also very few non-white actors in the films. The best friends of the two leads are both African-American but they both are stereotypes. Chad Danforth is basketball obsessed and a loyal friend. Taylor McKessie is bossy, demanding and over-organised. Her character is also incredibly intelligent and loyal to her best friend which is a departure from many portrayals of African-American characters in Disney films. But, they are still only supporting characters living stereotypes of what “good” African-American teenagers are interested in: boys do basketball and girls do smart & over-bossy. On the other hand, the main character Gabriella Montez is Hispanic-American, which is a major departure for mainstream Disney programs. Disney does feature non-white actors but only in supporting roles and frequently as crass stereotypes.
We can’t forget the issue of class as every single one of the characters lives in a huge house, including Gabriella Montez whose mother is a single parent. Poverty is never an issue. In fact, the characters can afford to just hop on planes and fly 1000 miles without so much blinking about the credit card charge. Obviously, abuse doesn’t exist and no one has any disabilities. It is the American Dream: a white heteronormative culture.
There are also serious problems with gender stereotyping. The mothers of all the teenagers are shown in kitchens only bringing in groceries, baking snacks, serving food, and interrupting private moments between teenagers. Fathers, on the other hand, are actively involved in coaching sports and being ‘cool’. The drama teacher is OTT in the ridiculous and Sharpay, well, Sharpay is a blond narcissistic ice queen who treats everyone like shit. Because, that is oh-so-original.
Yet, High School Musical is probably one of the most feminist films Disney has ever produced. The main character Gabriella is a “good” girl who wears virginal outfits. But, she’s also intelligent, loyal and prone to speeches on everyone working together. She changes everyone for the better by encouraging them to be true to themselves. She’s also true to herself valuing her education over her boyfriend. Gabriella isn’t mean and she doesn’t take shit from anyone. Yes, there is an unnecessary amount of twaddle about boyfriends and girlfriends and loving one another forever but Gabriella is an inspiring female character. The value placed on friendships between the teenage girls is so very, very different. With the exception of Sharpay, the girls support one another through their dreams, their hobbies and their lives. They work together for each other and they talk about the importance of valuing yourself as an individual over any potential relationship.
It’s not a perfect feminist film but it’s a start. And, in a complete departure from normal Disney narratives, the boy follows the girl to university.
<this rant is brought to you by my daughters who’ve been watching the trilogy together>
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In a meeting with judiciary officials Ayatollah Khamenei: US negotiations offer a deceptive effort
In this meeting, Ayatollah Khamenei urged Judiciary officials to take tangible steps within the branch towards improvement, and held: Act in a manner so that the change in the Judiciary becomes tangible within a while.
The Supreme Leader described the Judiciary Branch as a new phenomenon in the Islamic Republic that continues to evolve, saying: The Judicial Branch in the Islamic Republic has been a new phenomenon, with basic differences compared to the time before the Revolution. This sapling should grow day after day, and progress in every period compared to the previous period. Now a new period has started, so this new period should offer new advantages and achievements to the Judiciary, beyond what the predecessors have done. This achievement would be the change in the Judiciary.
Describing the change to be made in the Judiciary branch as further application of Islamic principles, Ayatollah Khamenei maintained: The desired change to be made is to attend to particular principles based on Islam, the Quran, and the Islamic Republic and to achieve the aspirations you innovate and use groundbreaking, effective, and new methods while compensating for previous shortcomings and gaps.
His Eminence stressed that any change to be made within the judiciary branch needs to come with planning in advance and added: Change without planning is impossible. Prior to his new responsibility, the honored head of the Judiciary was asked to prepare a comprehensive plan, which he accordingly did. Yet, if we want this plan to be implemented in practice, it requires much work.
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution further advised senior officials of the Judiciary Branch on pre-planning and asserted: My first recommendation is that you should focus on implementing the proper plan outlined scheduled and vigorously.
The dignity of the Iranian nation is not only relied on the recent events.
Ayatollah Khamenei referred to the escalating pressures by the Front of Arrogance against the Iranian nation as futile and stressed: It has been forty years that they have failed to bring the Iranian nation to its knees.
The Supreme Leader praised the Iranian nation for their dignity and resistance and held: Thanks be to God, the Iranian nation has demonstrated true dignity and sovereignty, which does not correspond merely to the recent events; rather, it has been so in the past forty years. The fact that foreign media outlets indicate that it is impossible to bring the Iranian nation to its knees is due to forty years of efforts and resistance on the side of the Iranian nation, not because of the recent events in the past few months.
Ayatollah Khamenei dubbed Iranian nation"s resistance in the face of enemies" hostile measures as breaking the chain of exploitation and asserted: The Iranian nation broke the chains of exploitation with its Islamic Revolution, and an Iranian identity with its Islamic characteristics was brought forward.
The Supreme Leader pointed out the Iranian nation"s quest for independence and dignity as a stronghold against aggressions and said: This nation seeks dignity, independence and progress. Thus, no matter how much the enemies press, this nation is not affected.
Highlighting the massive turn outs at elections and rallies in support of the establishment, Ayatollah Khamenei asserted: Look at the demonstrations and the elections. Despite all the sabotage [by the enemies], the people are still turnout with unwavering determination. There is an election at the end of the year. I know that the Iranian nation, in spite of all the expressions of doubt by some, will take part in this election fervently and enthusiastically.
The Supreme Leader slammed the United States regime for imposing yet another round of hostile sanctions against the Iranian nation, calling the U.S. government one of the ‘most vicious establishments in the world" and held: Now this great, brave and reputable nation is being accused by the most vicious government of the world, i.e. the U.S-the source of wars, bloodsheds, conflicts, and pillage of the nations throughout human history. The most abhorred figures of such a government accuse the Iranian nation and disparage them. The Iranian nation won"t give in to these insults and won"t retreat.
His Eminence went on to say: The Iranian nation is being oppressed by these cruel sanctions, but it is not weakened, and commands authority. By the Grace of God, the Iranian nation will reach all the objectives they have defined with strength and might.
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution described request of negotiations by the United States as a deceptive effort and maintained: Negotiation is an effort to deceive [Iran] into doing what the U.S. desires. It is like you hold a weapon, so the other side does not dare come close; you says ‘drop the weapon, so I can do whatever I want to you". This is what they mean by negotiation. If you accept their request, you will suffer the worst things, and if you don"t accept it, you will face the huff and puff and their hassles over human rights excuses.
His Eminence stressed: They bogusly claim to advocate for human rights: Human Rights American style! They shoot down 300 people on board a passenger airliner; they assist Saudi Arabia to bomb the Yemeni people in bazaars, celebrations, and hospitals.
Ayatollah Khamenei described the Iranian nation"s strength as rooted in belief in divine assistance and said: The strength of the Iranian nation is mainly due to trust in divine assistance. So Almighty God helps us, the proof of it being the past forty years when they took so many actions against us, they inflicted sedition, infiltration, war and terrorist attacks on our people; however, this nation resisted like a mountain, and today, it is stronger than 10 to 20 years ago.
His Eminence referred to desperate efforts by the United States to further pressure the Islamic Republic and said: Now that the U.S. failed to achieve their goals through pressures, assuming that the Iranian nation is naive, they say negotiate with us so you can advance. Yes, we will advance, but without you.
Ayatollah Khamenei wrapped up the meeting by stating: With your presence, we won"t advance. During the rule the two Pahlavi monarchs, you [the U.S. government] were in charge of everything, yet the establishment went backward day after day. You are responsible for the backwardness of the Iranian nation [then]. So the Iranian nation will progress, provided that you do not get involved.
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The Hollies Forum Index » My Back Pages » Fabulous, December 5, 1964: The Hollies Make Their Forecast
Post subject: Fabulous, December 5, 1964: The Hollies Make Their Forecast
This is from the British pop music magazine Fabulous. This issue is from December 5, 1964, and the article's full title is "The Hollies Make Their Forecast and it's Manchester." The boys talk about their battle strategy for ousting Liverpool as the pop capitol of Britain to make way for Manchester. It's cute, funny, and is a delightful step back in time to when rock stars did not take themselves seriously.
I had to scan the article in pieces so it could all fit here, since Fabulous is larger than a standard-sized magazine!
Posted:Wed Mar 21, 2007 20:58 pm
Last edited by Vrinda on Fri Aug 03, 2007 20:55 pm; edited 3 times in total
holliesfan
Wow Vrinda what a terrific article! I suppose it was somewhat of a turf battle in those days with all the fledgling beat groups vying for chart supremacy.
Really a great post. Hope you can dig up a few more along the way.
SpartyScott
Location: Gahanna, Ohio USA
Classic article. I love it.
I have one question for you British folks who actually were there in the 1960s - when did "gear" fall out of fashion as slang? I think that the Beatles say that work in the Hard Day's Night movie, right?
You're welcome, guys! I'll see what else I can find. Yes, Sparky, the Beatles do use "gear" in A Hard Day's Night. That's where I first heard it, but I don't know when it stopped being used as slang. It was before my time, so I don't know much about it. The others here can tell you more.
Location: Delaware, USA
Vrinda, thanks for another great article! With all the talk about the battle between the two cities, it's kind of funny how they later added that lad from Liverpool
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Posted:Thu Mar 22, 2007 13:09 pm
Great read, many thanks. It's great to read things from back in the early 60's.
I think it's George Harrison that says Gear in the Beatles movie when he was asked about these so called trendy clothes.
Every member of the Hollies has played his part, 50 great years and still going.
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You're welcome, Snowflake and Anthony! I also like to read these articles from the early sixties because it makes you feel like you're there when it's happening, and makes those of us who weren't wish we were!
Yes, SF, it does seem ironic that they waged war on Liverpool when five years later, they would recruit one of "the enemy" !
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Location: Dunstable
Slightly off topic, but today there is probably more competition between Liverpool and Manchester. However well - or badly - their respective football (soccer) teams are doing, the game between Liverpool and Manchester is always the biggest game of the season for both clubs. For those of us who don't come from either city it is always the biggest bore of the season
Posted:Fri Mar 23, 2007 9:57 am
Location: Des Moines, Iowa USA
Perhaps Terry got a special dispensation because the band first worked with him in neutral territory - Munich, Germany, in '65 - when Allan and Graham subbed at the show when other members of the The Escorts fell ill. And, despite all the trips English bands had made to play German gigs or tours by that point, several Mancunians probably felt very comfortable around a Liverpudlian.
Lancashire pride, at any rate...
Bruciebaby
Posted:Fri Mar 23, 2007 13:52 pm
Rythym Guitar
Thanks Vrinda!
I used to read Fabulous (208), but not as early as in 1964.
I thought the Hollies were a thing of the past for me, but at Dalhalla, they sure proved me wrong.
It was my pleasure, Agneta! When did you start reading Fabulous?
Post subject: Fabulous 208
Hi Vrinda!
I'm not exactly sure, but somewhere around 1969 or 1970, and then I bought it more or less regularly for some years. Actually, I thought I had saved some of the magazines but I've only found one, from October 1970, whith nothing about the Hollies in it.
New Musical Express I used to buy weekly for that period too, and sometimes Melody Maker and Rave, a monthly magazine.
I improved my English a lot, listening to pop music and reading about the Hollies!
Posted:Sat Mar 24, 2007 16:19 pm
Hi Agneta!
If it improves lingusitic abilities and creates better understanding across cultures, along with introducing you to the Hollies, than reading those music magazines was well worth it!
shootthebusstop
Great article(slap my wrist for not reading it sooner ).Manchester and Liverpool both rock as far as I'm concerned.The amount of talent to come out of those two cities is absolutely astounding .I think the competition between the two cities was a very positive thing.In my opinion Northern Talent is still strong.It's the cold weather you see.We have to either,dance,sing or laugh to keep warm .
I feel far from home and far from talented....
Posted:Wed Oct 31, 2007 23:45 pm
Post subject: Rivalries.....
Despite some "Rivalry" between Liverpool and Manchester bands as depicted above....there was NOT really as much as you might think in truth.....they were all out to earn as much as they could...thus you went where the work was...no time to hold "Rivalries"...when you needed to be welcome...and thus able to play in as many places as possible...
Posted:Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:52 am
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Juhi Chawala
D.O.B. November 13, 1967
Model, Actress
Jai Mehta
153 Oxford Towers, Oshiwara Complex, Lokhandwala Road
Andheri (W),
Mumbai 400 058, (India)
(Source : www.naradonline.com)
I love reading comics. Give me one, any day. I used to have a collection-Tintin, Archies... I still buy comics as and when. In the newspaper, the comic's section is the favourite and I go for it first. Then as I read different books I realised that there are funny books too or ones that have a humorous touch. Serious books bore me though. I have read literature--Jane Austen, Bernard Shaw, Charles Dickens, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy and even a little Shakespeare. But I didn't really enjoy them much. They are nice as a base for all readers. But after a point they tend to get heavy. I go on the internet to read my fill of comics. Peanuts was another favourite. I'd rather watch Tom and Jerry than a film. The other day I was reading Groucho Marx's biography and I realised how difficult it is to make people laugh. Then I got hooked on to the autobiographies of famous comedians including Charlie Chaplin. It touched my heart. But one hardly comes across a really good book these days. Most of them are either just completely timepass or just about okay. Nothing is really mind blowing. Or maybe I haven't been keeping in touch.
Source : www.naradonline.com)
Name : Juhi Chawla
Date of birth: 13 November
Most comfortable in: Jeans and T-shirt
Hate to be seen in: A cat suit!
Designers I like: Tarun Tahiliani, Neeta Lulla, Manish Malhotra, Abu Jani
Abu Jani is a hot favourite 'coz: Their exquisite work blows your mind off!
My clothes are important 'coz: They reflect my personality. If you are well dressed then you automatically feel good.
When in Bombay I shop at: Abu Jani's for Indian clothes and Tarun for ensembles.
At a non-film party, I'd love to wear: a smile, specks and any outfit.
At a wedding, I'd wear: a ghagra choli
The most well-dressed male and female film star is: Other than me? Rekha and amongst the men, Anil Kapoor.
The most well-dressed male and female non-film star is: Sachin Tendulkar and Shobha De
Jewellery I like: Exquisite Indian Jewellery
My designer for jewellery is: Viren Bhagat
My skin is good 'coz: I drink a lot of water
Last time I had a pimple was: I get it all the time. The last one I had was yesterday!
Cosmetics I use off-screen: eyeliner and lipstick.
Good cosmetic brands are: Mac is the best for everything
My favourite perfume is: Jeane Paul Gautier
I style my hair from: Mickey Contractor or Michelle
My menu for a good diet is: eat everything, why diet at all?
I never wanted my personal life to be talked about too much : - Juhi Chawla
Juhi Chawla has just delivered a baby girl and she is naturally on top of the world. But through the pregnancy, she maintained a low profile. Just like she did for a long time about her marriage. But a few weeks before the delivery, it seemed as though she was finally ready to talk. She gave interviews and readied herself for the baby. She also waited the release of her films. The whole thing appears to be well planned. Juhi doesn't intend staying away for long, in the meantime, there are these films that will keep her alive in public memory. We interviewed her, just a few days before she had a delivery.
How does it feel to be a pregnant?
Well I feel like on cloud nine. Of course I am thrilled to bits and it's really great. But the best part is that I have been working till the end of the seventh month. When I did my shows in September last year I was carrying but people didn't know and I liked it that way. I never wanted my personal life to be talked about too much.
So what happens to your filmi career when you are off?
Well it goes on. Any ways since sometime I had cut down my work to do great and meaty roles rather than the usual ones, which were a little repetitive for me. So I signed films like Sanjay Chel's Yahoo and Suneel Darshan's Ek Rishta where I play Akshay's sister, as the role was quite nice than other main leads offered to me. I had told my producers to finish all the work by December so then I could simply relax without any guilt. But I will be seen on screen with Shashilal Nair's One Two Ka Four releasing in March and then followed by Ek Rishta. Sanjay Chhel's Yahoo too should come soon like July or so by then I would be able to start working again. I have Priyadarshan's Kashmakash too but the film is stuck for some reason. I've some other films with good roles too but I haven't signed them yet. Let's see. People are sceptical if I will do films anymore or not I want to tell them that I will. I can't see my self-doing anything else or not working but still I will take one day at a time. And the best part is I am being offered roles and films I can be proud of so why not?
So how do feel about the developments in Dreamz Company and Ashoka being made without you?
We are all excited about Ashoka and I have no problem if I am not in the film. But Archlights' is producing Ashoka which is almost complete. Dreamz will make more commercial films while Arcs' will be more creative cinema like Ashoka. This film has turned out fabulous and Santosh has done wonders. See the film and you will agree too. We wanted to experiment so what if the budget was small budget. It is a means of giving something worthwhile back to the industry. And I can't possibly do all films we make so I can assure you that if there is any role for me I will surely do it. And moreover Kareena Kapoor is too good in the film. She was the right choice. We are planning another film for Dreamz Unlimited with Azizji who is doing the script right now. Soon we will make an announcement.
People feel you have made a wrong career move by taking on Akshay's sister's role in Suneel Darshan's Ek Rishta?
Yes, I know people have asked me this so many times that I can't reply anymore. The role is too good. Though I am not the heroine I am the sister so what the story revolves around this family which has Amitabh Bachchan who plays Akshay's and my father and there's Karisma opposite Akshay and Mohnish. It's an interesting film. So I don' t think that it was a bad career move or anything.
Juhi Chawla, 5'5", a Hindi actresses, born on Nov 3 1967, with Scorpio sign from Ludhiana, Punjab. Her mother is Mona Chawla and dad is Dr. Chawla. Her Brother Sanjeev "Bobby" Chawla. Juhi Chawla is married to an industrialist Jai Mehta. Her awards inlcude Miss India 1984, Best Costume Award in the Miss Universe contest 1984, Filmfare Best Actress Award 1994 for Hum Hain Rahi Pyar Ke.....
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Delayed gadolinium-enhanced MRI of meniscus (dGEMR...
T2 mapping and post-contrast T1 (dGEMRIC) of the patellar cartilage : 12-year follow-up after patellar stabilizing surgery in childhood by: Bengtsson Moström, Eva Published: (2017)
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Quantifying complex micro‐topography of degenerated articular cartilage surface by contrast‐enhanced micro‐computed tomography and parametric analyses by: Ylitalo, Tuomo Published: (2019)
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Sigurdsson et al. BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders (2016) 17:406 DOI 10.1186/s12891-016-1244-z
Delayed gadolinium-enhanced MRI of meniscus (dGEMRIM) and cartilage (dGEMRIC) in healthy knees and in knees with different stages of meniscus pathology
Sigurdsson, Ulf1; Müller, Gunilla2; Siversson, Carl3;
Lammentausta, Eveliina4; Svensson, Jonas5; Tiderius, Carl-Johan6; Dahlberg, Leif E.6
1Department of Orthopaedics, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital
2Institute of Radiology und Scintigraphy, Kantonsspital Lucerne
3Medical Radiation Physics, Department of Translational Medicine, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital
4Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Oulu University Hospital
5Medical Imaging and Physiology, Skåne University Hospital
6Department of Orthopaedics, Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Skåne University Hospital
Springer Nature, 2016
Background: Lesions in the meniscus are risk factors for developing knee osteoarthritis (OA), not least because of the role of the meniscus in the pathological progression of OA. Delayed gadolinium enhanced MRI of cartilage (dGEMRIC) has extensively been used to identify pre-radiographic cartilage changes in OA. In contrast, its counterpart with regard to examination of the meniscus, gadolinium enhanced MRI of meniscus (dGEMRIM), has been less utilized. In this study we use 3D dGEMRIM in patients with meniscus lesions and compare them with previous results of healthy individuals.
Methods: Eighteen subjects with MRI-verified posteromedial meniscus lesions and 12 healthy subjects with non-injured and non-symptomatic knee joints, together 30 volunteers, were examined using 3D Look-Locker sequence after intravenous injection of Gd-DTPA²⁻ (0.2 mmol/kg body weight). Relaxation time (T1) was measured in the posterior meniscus and femoral cartilage before and 60, 90, 120 and 180 min after injection. Relaxation rate (R1 = 1/T1) and change in relaxation rate (ΔR1) were calculated. For statistical analyses, Student’s t-test and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were used.
Results: The pre-contrast diagnostic MRI identified two sub-cohorts in the 18 patients with regard to meniscus injury: 1) 11 subjects with MRI verified pathological intrameniscal changes (grade 2) in the posteromedial meniscus only and no obvious cartilage changes. The lateral meniscus showed no pathology. 2) 7 subjects with MRI verified pathological rupture (grade 3) of the posteromedial meniscus and pathological changes in the lateral meniscus and/or medial and lateral joint cartilage.
Comparisons of pathological and healthy posteromedial meniscus revealed opposite patterns in both T1Gd and ΔR1 values between pathological meniscus grade 2 and grade 3. The concentration of the contrast agent was lower than in healthy meniscus in grade 2 lesions (p = 0.046) but tended to increase in grade 3 lesions (p = 0.110). Maximum concentration of contrast agent was reached after 180 min in both cartilage and menisci (except for grade 3 menisci where the maximum concentration was reached after 90 min).
Conclusion: dGEMRIM and dGEMRIC may be feasible to combine in vivo, preferably with one examination before and one 2 h after contrast injection. Possible different dGEMRIM patterns at different stages of meniscus lesions must be taken into account when evaluating meniscus pathology.
BMC musculoskeletal disorders
10.1186/s12891-016-1244-z
https://oadoi.org/10.1186/s12891-016-1244-z
3121 General medicine, internal medicine and other clinical medicine
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Texas yet to 'turn the page' on police reform, and other stories
Lets's clear out Grits' browser tabs with a quick roundup of stories about policing which deserve Grits readers' attention:
Texas hasn't 'turned the page' on police reform just yet
First, The Crime Report had an interview with Texas state representative and House County Affairs Committee Chairman Garnet Coleman on passage of the Sandra Bland Act. Coleman's comments were more measured, but the story included an unfortunate headline: "How Texas turned the page on police reform." To be clear: Texas has done no such thing. Coleman's bill mainly addressed mental health issues and mandated Texas cops receive deescalation training. But Texas' big police reform bill died on the vine this year, and the most important reform elements in Coleman's bill - eliminating arrests for most Class C offenses and mandating bail for non-dangerous misdemeanants - were removed before passage. The Sandra Bland Act was significant, positive legislation and Grits doesn't want to diminish its importance, but let's please slow our roll on the whole dusting off our hands, problem-solved meme.
Austin PD crime lab blues
The Austin Monitor has a pair of stories detailing problems at Austin PD's crime lab which forced the closure of its DNA section:
Austin's crime lab failure points to national crisis
The implosion of Austin's crime lab: A timeline
Will legalized long knives change how Texas cops deal with knife wielders?
Now that Texas has legalized people carrying knives and swords of any size, perhaps the issue of how quickly police shoot knife wielding suspects will be revisited.
Public reverence for cops undermined by shoot-first ethic
This essayist in Slate makes a good point, with an homage to Dallas News columnist Steve Blow, disputing the adage that the “No. 1 duty of a police officer [should be] to go home to his or her family at the end of the shift.” Here's the money quote the writer pulled from Blow's March 2015 column.
But there’s the crux of the matter. They have willingly taken a job that involves personal risk. It also requires split-second decision making that must go beyond simple self-preservation
If going home safely becomes the overriding priority, that can become another way of saying, “Shoot first and ask questions later.”
This modern dicta of 21st century policing ultimately undermines the public's faith in law enforcement as surely as do unfounded criticisms of racism with which police officials are so much more deeply concerned. After all, as the Slate author concluded, "The reason we revere cops isn’t their dedication to protecting their own lives. It’s their dedication to protecting ours."
More disagreement among law enforcement than portrayed
The Heritage Foundation has published an odd "special report" purporting to summarize a convening they sponsored of various law enforcement officials. However, upon looking at the stakeholders' disparate remarks appended therein, Heritage oversold any notion of consensus, and in fact revealed significant disagreement among its (one-sided) array of stakeholders. According to Heritage, "police have had few allies," and "anti-police rhetoric has left Americans, particularly those living in low-income communities and minority communities, more at risk." But they overstated the consensus. E.g., the explanatory text under a headline which read, "Allegations of 'Systemic Racism' Are False and Harmful," actually read, "Some attendees agreed that the concept of broad 'systemic racism' in law enforcement is a damaging, false narrative that undermines public support for policing. Others felt it important to acknowledge and address past wrongs and prior grievances in order to improve race relations." That range of views hardly supports the subhed! Regardless, Heritage warned darkly that "long-term declines in crime rates ... are now being threatened by some of the developments discussed in this Special Report." This deserves a more thorough vetting than Grits has time to apply at the moment, but I wanted to flag the link.
Recent policing scholarship
Here are several academic articles on policing which are getting added to Grits' to-read stack:
Elizabeith Joh, "The undue interest of surveillance technology companies on policing."
Frederick W. Turner II & Bryanna Hahn Fox, "Public servants or police soldiers?"
Adam Gershowitz, "The Intake Prosecutor: Prosecutorial screening before police make warrantless arrests."
Labels: Austin, Crime labs, Police, Sandra Bland, use of force
They still aim at the center mass. Shoot to kill.
Maybe rubber bullets are a better option?
Grits, take a look at this habeas corpus ruling that came out today: http://search.txcourts.gov/Case.aspx?cn=14-13-00559-CR&coa=coa14
In the annals of poor representation, this one should be fairly near the top. Poor guy, Quintero, went to prison on recanted allegation. Another case where someone beat the rap but didn't beat the 5 year ride.
RE: Austin PD crime lab blues
"...Mike Coble, a DNA expert, clarified further.“The [lab] protocol could be excerpts from ‘Harry Potter,’” Coble said. Beyond that, the auditors “don’t have the teeth” to say whether the testing protocol is actually effective."
But the auditors COULD look at the validation experiments that the lab performed to generate the lab protocols. The auditors COULD ascertain if the validation experiments properly addressed and demonstrated the limits of detection, the error rates, the variables that can contribute to false negatives and false positives, etc. The auditors COULD assess if the lab protocols are written and understood enough to satisfy the TRE 702/703 such that the lab analysts with this knowledge can testify to “assist the trier of fact to understand the evidence or determine a fact in issue.” But auditors are just too lazy or incompetent to understand the scientific methodology that goes into creating solid, concise, and through validation experiments to develop the best protocols that anyone can follow. At the very least auditors COULD include in their audit report whether the validation experiments were produced by lab managers for inspection. But even this is too much for most auditors.
The crime lab protocols I've seen are so poorly written, incomplete, and vague that they make the protocols for toasting a Pop-tart look robust, infallible, and defensible in court. Most bench analysts (and unfortunately most lab managers) don't really know what a protocol is. They know HOW to do something, but they don't know WHY to do something. And the WHY is really the most important when testifying and clarifying the reasoning for the jury.
The other gaping problems is...are the protocols actually followed as written, or are the analysts improvising because no one is really taught them properly and no one is really watching. -- especially the auditors.
In my admittedly limited experience, the changes in laws regarding knives will likely cause very few changes in how police deal with them. If a person charges at an officer with a knife or sword, they are going to be just as likely to "stop the threat" under the new law as they were under the old. Police encounter folks with knives all the time and in all but the tiniest fraction of cases, no harm comes of it. Since the state of Texas made open carry legal, there have not been a rash of additional shootings either, the operative idea being "don't be an obvious threat" somehow lost on some people.
"More disagreement among law enforcement than portrayed"
Put five cops in a room to discuss anything and you will get at least 5 different opinions. Give them ten more minutes and you will have at least ten different opinions.
Where in the recommendation or the process is a system to test the testers?
I recall a final in my chemistry lab in engineering school where we were provided what we understood to be randomized samples.
In truth, the samples were all reagent grade pure water. Imagine how hard it is to find there is nothing in the sample especially where one fully expects to find something?
Everyone 'failed' the exam but learned much in the process. I.e. one gets what one INSPECTS not what one EXPECTS.
Again all the words expended defining processes and procedure mean little if the process does not work in the real world.
I would suggest the test be submitted in the same way real evidence is submitted.
Not as a double-blind but a multiple blind so no one, especially the certifiers, have no clue on which is which.
@8:18-
Most Lab Directors claim that blind proficiency testing of their analysts is too complex, too time consuming, or too costly. Yet they never do a direct cost comparison to the cost to the taxpayer for wrongful convictions (annual payouts for the exonerated) or the social cost of guilty parties roaming the streets because the lab analysts botched the testing that could have convicted them. There is no incentive to perform blind testing and there is no penalty for not implementing blind proficiency testing in the lab. Since the oversight is essentially nil, why bother?
As a reminder of how fake accreditation and lab audits truly are (sadly, from 2011):
http://njdc.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Memo-Re-ASCLD-Lab-and-Forensic-Lab-Accreditation.pdf
BarkGrowlBite said...
Re. Going home.
Grits, I've followed Grits for Breakfast for years. It has led me to the firm conclusion that you're an uber-liberal latent cop-hater and Grits for Breakfast is designed to cater to your fellow cop-haters.
In all my years as a law enforcement officer and professor of criminal justice, I have never met a cop who started his shift wanting to shoot someone. But every cop wants to go home - or to a bar - at the end of the shift. If that means in the eyes of a cop, he believes someone has a good chance to kill or seriously injure him or a citizen, then it's a shoot first situation. I believe that cops are entitled to act on the eyes of a beholder.
I know that many if not most cops try to deescalate a potentially deadly situation, but deescalation often is not appropriate, or when it is, it does not work. Rarely will you ever find some lame-brained cop who should never have been in law enforcement to begin with, that has a 'shoot first, ask questions afterwards' attitude.
Wise Texan said...
Oh Bark, if you follow this blog and have for years, you should realize Grits does a good job of giving credit where credit is due and calling a spade a spade. That isn't to say I always agree with him but I respect his opinion and understand as a regular reader why he holds the positions he holds. Conservatives and Republicans tend to label anyone with a different opinion as a dirty hippie liberal and Liberals and Democrats tend to label anyone with a different opinion as a war mongering neo-con because you know, having a different opinion, even when supported by facts is a big no-no now a days. Perhaps if we stop trying to put people in boxes, look at ACTUAL facts as I believe Grits consistently does we could really come up with some solutions to the problems faced today.
I don't hate cops, in fact, have several friends in law enforcement but that isn't to say my respect for those folks is because they put on a badge every day. It's because of the people they are, the choices they make and the way in which they behave. When you have repeated video evidence on what seems to be a DAILY basis these days of cops who escalate a situation unwarrantedly, how could you not admit changes need to be made? How many people need to lose their freedom or lives to an over-zealous officer for no good reason before we admit there is a problem?
It's funny this has come up because I just had a conversation yesterday about how we as a society throw the word "hero" around like nothing. We label cops, soldiers, teachers, hell even government workers as heroes for doing nothing more than their job and I'll admit, I used to buy into that notion. As I've watched events unfold over the last several years, I've matured enough to understand that true heroism is defined as going above and beyond the call of duty to protect the lives of others and using that word for any other reason is propaganda.
Shooting an unarmed person when non-lethal force could just as easily be employed is NOT heroic. Grits has done a fine job of stressing the importance of law enforcement training being geared toward de-escalation instead of the current typical training of escalation. Your statement, if it "means in the eyes of a cop, he believes someone has a good chance to kill or seriously injure him or a citizen, then it's a shoot first situation" further proves this point because by and large this is the attitude of law enforcement as a whole. It should not be "shoot first" it should be "stop the assailant or if possible, remove citizens to safety". If a man has a knife and is acting aggressively toward an officer, there is no reason a taser should not first be employed. Shooting someone should be the LAST option when there is no other option but deadly force to prevent injury to the officer or the public. We have repeatedly seen cops escalate a situation that could easily have been resolved with non-lethal force but instead deadly force is used because of this "shoot first" mentality that pervades LEOs. Sadly, I've met too many lame-brained cops that should never have been in law enforcement to begin with to agree with your last statement. When we hire men and women and provide less training than a solider or other professional who has to make life or death decisions receives and then have no true accountability for when lethal force is CLEARLY unwarranted, I'm not sure what else we should expect.
WT, I'm a middle of the road kind of guy myself, finding enough fault with both of the major political parties that I don't generally support either one of them often enough. The same holds true for self professed liberals or conservatives, they are so often identical on slightly different policy questions that neither comes across as such.
I've had family that were cops, both in the military and in the regular world, and knew many others. As Bark points out, officers simply want to go home in a single piece at the end of their shifts, the caricature of blood thirsty cops looking to shoot people is nonsensical just as the attempt to canonize all of them as saintly. In the US it is reported there are over 800,000 cops, more if you include the military and various reserves, all of them receiving different levels of training and education because our society doesn't want to collectively pay for more and abhors standardization.
But even that doesn't explain a great deal because the disparities of our society are even more extreme, from rednecks that think they have the right to shoot a cop who they believe is making a false arrest to the minorities that just don't understand why cops might not care for the narrative that committing crimes with weapons might just draw attention from said officers who become hostile, to the armchair quarterbacks that need to mentally defend their choices to represent the scum of society by getting them off on technicalities, all of those stereotypes found in abundance. And it's so easy to claim that a person without a gun poses no threat yet for the most part, cops do NOT know that to be the case when confronting suspects, just as knives as far more deadly than some of you give credit for, making split second decisions where weapons of any sort are involved is a great deal trickier than laymen seem to recognize. In a "shoot/no shoot" exercise put on by Houston's police, every critic trying it failed repeatedly, either by dying because they took no action or inappropriate action, or they killed multiple targets because the circumstances dictated the use of lethal force, and that was knowing ahead of time what to expect.
Houston was a nationwide leader in deescalation training too, providing the full week long class to cadets and bringing every other officer back for multiple days of training yet someone forgot to tell the local punks that still manage to point weapons, attempt to disarm officers, and otherwise cause them harm. The techniques have helped but frankly, the belief that tremendous scrutiny after the fact is going to prevent most altercations is as much a dream as suggesting criminals across the country have no culpability for their own demise when they are shot in the commission of a felony, present a clear danger, or refuse to obey lawful instructions. Almost everyone shot by police is covered by that last statement, the few that aren't are the poster children for haters like Scott like they are the norm instead of the exception.
Changes need to be made and we need to be willing to spend the money on training and better candidates but the idea that a significant number of officers are out there trying to ruin unsuspecting people is crazy, just like the shooting stuff.
for 8:07- The statements in the news article from the lab auditors are very concerning. If the auditors don't know if the lab protocols are scientifically sound, how would the gatekeepers (Judges) know to exclude them or not? How would a jury know? Wouldn't a crime lab's failure to produce a protocol's validating experiments be tantamount to dry-labbing? They are, in a sense, proclaiming a reliability (of a protocol) without actually performing the tests to come to those conclusions.
And to follow up with the TRE, the similar FRE 702 requires:
(c) the testimony is the product of reliable principles and methods; and
(d) the expert has reliably applied the principles and methods to the facts of the case.
The auditors in the article have stated that they don't know if the principles and methods are reliable for each lab receiving accreditation. As such, they can't possibly know if the expert applied the potentially scientifically unsound principles and methods to the lab report conclusions. Hence, the requirements of 702 have not been achieved and no expert testimony should be allowed, unless perjury is back in fashion.
Lab auditors are not part of the legal process. Within the confines of the legal process, scientific testimony can be objected to, in which case the judge will hold a 702 hearing. At that time, Both sides may offer witnesss. It is on the basis of that testimony that the judge will rule on th admissibility of the testimony.
Is is perhaps relevant to note that many people appear to not fully understand what laboratory accreditation is and is not. Currently, testing and calibration laboratories (including but not only forensic laboratories) are accredited to ISO/IEC 17025:2005 standards. These standards concern the administrative, quality management, and technical operations of the laboratory. As described on the ISO website, "ISO/IEC 17025:2005 is for use by laboratories in developing their management system for quality, administrative and technical operations. Laboratory customers, regulatory authorities and accreditation bodies may also use it in confirming or recognizing the competence of laboratories. ISO/IEC 17025:2005 is not intended to be used as the basis for certification of laboratories."
In a nutshell, accreditation is an evaluation of the laboratory's management system. While accreditation is a good thing, it is not a certification that a laboratory's technical operations meet the most current scientific standards. That assessment is not currently done through the laboratory accreditation process. People who believe that it is have been misinformed.
@10:49-
When a lab analyst declares during trial that their lab is "accredited", then the lab auditors and their audit reports are MOST CERTAINLY part of the legal process. And a 702 hearing will most definitely bring up the accreditation status of the lab. Prosecutors will exaggerate the competency of their expert witnesses and the reliability of their work by loudly proclaiming "accreditation" in front of a judge and jury. Judges not understanding the accreditation status (or believing the credibility of accreditation audits) will incorporate that accreditation into their decision.
It is perhaps relevant to note that the Austin Police Dept DNA Unit was "accredited" and, as we now know, their management system lead to the teaching of their analysts improper statistical use of DNA data, allowing them to use expired reagents for evidence analysis, and a litany of other unsound unscientific practices for the better part of a decade (moldy sexual assault kits, or the reporting of). Their laboratory management and quality assurance system was a sham, yet they somehow were accredited.
A pathologist with a medical degree doesn't mean he/she's good at performing autopsies.
A person with a driver's license doesn't mean they are good at driving.
Just because a crime lab has an accreditation certificate doesn't mean that the lab managers know what they are doing, but they will proclaim that they are because of the certificate. People who believe in accreditation are sorely misled.
Crime Labs in Texas are required by law to be accredited -- 78th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 2703, Chapter 698.
Hence, it is part of the legal process.
As such, there is even more incentive for those poorly run crime labs to hide their flaws, or convince the auditors that their flaws are not really flaws and shouldn't be noted in any subsequent reports -- which happens with great frequency.
@10:49 here
Reply to @3:48/@4:12 -
Please re-read @10:13 and my reply.
@10:13 was suggesting that without complete and utter confidence in the accreditation process and the judgement of auditors, the court would be unable to perform its responsibilities under Daubert. My response was to point out to @10:13 (and now to @3:48/@4:12) that the court's responsibilities under Daubert are independent of the process of laboratory accreditation and audits. Admissibility under Daubert does not depend upon accreditation audits. Daubert doesn't mention accreditation as a benchmark of admissibility. Neither does Kumho. While laboratory accreditation of forensic laboratories in some disciplines is required by Texas law, the law does not attempt to describe what accreditation means. It only makes it a requirement for admissibility.
Challenges to the reliability of a laboratory's work are properly made using opposing experts in admissibility hearings or at trial. Accreditation alone is not going to tell the court anything about the issues related to Daubert.
@10:49 / 2:36-
Both Daubert (1993) and Kumho (1999) were decided upon before the law requiring accreditation for Texas crime labs was implemented (2005). So, of course they wouldn't mention "accreditation" as a requirement for admissibility. Neither is a lab analyst's "certification" mentioned, but that, too, will be a legal requirement in 2019.
But challenges to the reliability of a laboratory's work via 702 hearing won't even begin if the crime lab does not have accreditation (for those forensic disciplines that the law requires). A Prosecutor couldn't even get the evidence inside the court room. Without accreditation there is no challenges about admissibility because there is no discussion. It's a fail-stop.
By analogy, I couldn't make a case in traffic court about my stellar driving abilities above 100 mph a motorcycle on a pedestrian-filled sidewalk...if I don't have a drivers license. My argument would be moot.
So Texas crime labs have to either legitimately gain accreditation through exemplary adherence to accreditation guidelines, or surreptitiously gain accreditation by hiding problems and faking compliance in order to get the diploma to enter a courtroom and provide testimony (which apparently is the excuse given by the auditors in the news article.)
"...it [accreditation] is not a certification that a laboratory's technical operations meet the most current scientific standards.."
Wrong answer.
If lab accreditation is not important for determining scientific standards and admissibility, then why is it law? Why would Judges need to know if a lab is accredited or not before allowing evidence into court proceedings? Accreditation in Texas was voluntary before 2003. But because some lab managers were uninformed of the best practices for maintaining reliable evidence analysis, a checklist (accreditation) was implemented. Judges need to know this checklist is being followed.
The International (Lab Accreditation) Program is based on ISO 17025. In addition to the 17025 requirements, there are Supplemental requirements for accreditation of forensic science testing labs. Some of these forensic-specific requirements include:
ISO 17025 - Technical Requirements
5.2 Personnel
5.3 Accommodations and Environmental Conditions
5.4 Test Methods and Method Validation
5.5 Equipment
5.6 Measurement Traceability
5.7 Sampling
5.8 Handling of Test Items
5.9 Assuring the Quality of Test Results
5.10 Reporting the Results
It's guaranteed that if a crime lab is using RFLP protocols instead of STR DNA protocols, they are not going to get ISO accreditation. If the lab analysts are routinely handling evidence without proper PPE (gloves, face masks, hair nets) they are not going to get accreditation. If the lab analysts are eating lunch while simultaneously analyzing sexual assault kits, they're not going to get accredited.
If analysts are only reporting positive results for tests and omitting the negative results, they are not going to get accredited.
Accreditation is an indicator that none of this is occurring and that the best scientific protocols are being used, and that the most reliable scientific information is reaching the judge and jury.
So unless a gatekeeper is performing the lab audit themselves, and going to the lab to identifying all 400 criteria required for ISO 17025 accreditation (and the forensic-specific requirements), a Judge has to defer to the reports of the accreditation auditors, which unfortunately can be incomplete (purposely omitted information) and falsified.
Reply to 8:24 -
10:49 here.
Don't get me wrong. Laboratory accreditation is a good thing. ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accreditation is a good thing. And Texas state law requiring accreditation is a good thing, even though state law doesn't require ISO/IEC 17025:2005 accreditation in any discipline, and only requires accreditation in some disciplines.
My points are simple. 1) Accreditation doesn't do what you think it should do, and doesn't say what you think it should say about a laboratory's technical operations; and 2) the fact that a laboratory is accredited and audited is separate from the question of whether work being offered in evidence meets Daubert standards for admissibility.
Those are the simple truths of the matter.
I should remind everyone that more police officers are convicted of child sex crimes than ALL other professions combined, some 76,000 in the past 5-years alone: https://www.facebook.com/PoliceOfficersRapingKids/.
BarkGrowlBite said..Rarely will you ever find some lame-brained cop who should never have been in law enforcement to begin with, that has a 'shoot first, ask questions afterwards' attitude.
Sure have a lot of pedophiles in law enforcement, so isn't it just possible a few thousand murderous psychopaths have also made the grade?
Yes, it is a good thing, if it is actually what it claims to be. But most of the time it isn't. The accreditation auditors aren't doing what they claim they are doing. The APD lab disaster is a prime example. If the Forensic Science Commission was paying attention, they would perform historical re-analysis of all accredited labs for the past 15 years. Get the yearly audits of each lab and find out if they were thoroughly audited, and not superficially audited. Were long-standing problems of each crime lab addressed, or ignored?
Having worked in an "accredited" crime lab (not APD), I know first hand that "accreditation" is garbage. The problem is that Prosecutors, Defense Attorneys, Judges, and Juries don't know what accreditation means. In a courtroom Prosecutors inflate the qualities of a lab's performance and scientific prowess with "accreditation". Judges eat that "sh*t sandwich" because it makes their job easier. And juries, not knowing anything about the process of "accreditation" believe everything they're told, including the lies from the Prosecutors and so-called expert witnesses from crime labs. It's an additional layer of bullsh*t that the Defense Attorney would have to tackle before dismantling the crime lab report. But because most Defense Attorneys don't have a clue as to a crime lab's "technical operations," they are hamstrung in the courtroom.
For the past 15 years, DPS has been rubber-stamping "accreditation" to whatever crime lab wanted one. Time will tell if the FSC is any better at performing this activity. But, given that Pat Johnson (the DPS person responsible for accreditation for the past 15 years) is now a FSC member, I don't have much faith.
That is the simple truth.
@3:11 -
The view that "accreditation is garbage" is an unsupportable position that shows a woefully weak grasp of production laboratory operations. It is definitely a good thing that your describe your laboratory work experience in the past tense.
Anon 12:49, if the only proof you have of pedophilia in law enforcement is your own facebook page, perhaps you have a bias against them that just doesn't match other data freely available from independent sources?
Didn't read the article, did ya?
"In fact, the auditing agencies designated to watch the lab in the past missed the warning signs for almost a decade. Before 2016, the Austin lab had been passing audits with no problems...."
Equals garbage.
Looks like we found the Trump voter at 6:09AM -- Resorting to personal attack without any contribution to the discussion or realizing/acknowledging/understanding the facts of the situation.
The Austin Monitor is just Fake News, right 6:09AM?
"..unsupportable position.." ??
Do you mean other than the 2 news articles Grits posted, the related links within the news articles, the webpage link to the 2011 memorandum in the above comment @8:57, The 2016 Forensic Science Commissions Report on the APD DNA Unit, and the closure of said DNA Unit, and the plethora of crime labs across the nation exposed for unsound scientific practices reported on daily in the news?
I don't think "unsupportable position" means what you think it means.
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4K Garden, a content services platform of Alibaba group in China, has signed an agreement with Sony China Professional Solutions Group (CPSG) to purchase an IP-4K outside broadcast truck. The full-IP 4K truck that Sony China is contracted to build will have eight 4K cameras and will be the most advanced of its kind in China. Thanks to Sony’s core 4K/HDR/IP production equipment and solutions, the truck can also be upgraded to utilise up to 16 cameras in the future. Kit includes HDC-4300 cameras, XVS-7000 switcher, PWS-4400 multi-port storage and LIve System Manager Software.
4K Garden’s Chairman and founder, Wu Yi, explained that 4K Garden set out to be China’s largest 4K content creation and distribution platform. “Assisted by great support from Sony, we have purchased a large amount of Sony 4K equipment to encourage users to shoot more productions in 4K,” said Wu Yi. “We have already had a positive response from 4K production teams throughout China, they all expressed a willingness to use our Sony 4K equipment. We hope to continue working with Sony to develop the 4K industry and provide viewers with higher quality audio-visual entertainment experiences.”
4K Garden has also established over 100 workstations which can each produce 30 hours of 4K content every year, amounting to over 3000 hours per year of 4K content in total. Next year, 4K Garden will also produce exciting live content in 4K, with a plan to broadcast up to 50 live performances. This was the primary reason that 4K Garden decided to purchase a large-scale 4K outside broadcast truck from Sony. As the business grows, 4K Garden may require up to eight IP-4K outside broadcast trucks to produce premium content.
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Rapid Chess Improvement Dec 19, 2010 0:12:06 GMT -5
Post by petejwatts on Dec 19, 2010 0:12:06 GMT -5
I played in a tourney yesterday which provided a further demonstration of the principles I have expounded here, and also about Fischer mode. I was a pawn up when my opponent pulled off a brilliant bishop sacrifice on an empty square. After a lot of thought, I determined my only escape was to sac my queen for the bishop and a rook, producing a very unclear unbalanced position. Now well down on time and fed up with my opponents queen I decided to sac both my rooks just to get rid of it, so that now I was down on material as well! My only hope was an active knight and connected passed pawns which I immediately advanced, committing his nominally more powerful rook to a very passive role preventing me from queening. What followed was a fascinating battle in asymmetric warfare where I think I had the possible edge, but I was still long way down on time, but with Fischer mode I didnt get too stressed. However his rook broke out and I think I was losing when he allowed me to fork it and his king and it was game over. He made two telling comments: "I'm not good at endgames." and "If it werent for this d**n Fischer mode, I could have got you on time." He was surprised when I told him I prefer Fischer mode for that reason, and if we had been playing sudden death, I would have played differently. That one might actually manage one's time differently depending on the timing system had never occurred to him. I once came back from a bad position with about 3 minutes to my opponents 20 in Fischer mode to win. The Watts school of chess wins again!
Rapid Chess Improvement Dec 22, 2010 17:37:45 GMT -5
Post by on Dec 22, 2010 17:37:45 GMT -5
Good post Pete!
I have started playing chess about 5 years ago, and in spite of everything (software, books etc) I am making a slow progress, why is that?
Rapid Chess Improvement Jan 12, 2011 13:59:08 GMT -5
Post by on Jan 12, 2011 13:59:08 GMT -5
Play as many games as possible!
Rapid Chess Improvement Jan 13, 2011 2:42:17 GMT -5
Post by petejwatts on Jan 13, 2011 2:42:17 GMT -5
As well as playing a lot, one should record one's games to study later with Fritz or similar. Also one should recruit a stronger player to teach you. Not necessarily a Master, just someone significantly stronger than oneself. Also it has to be said it is possible that one may not actually have much natural talent. Naturally strong players can play well without having to study - it's just the way it is.
alexbrown
Rapid Chess Improvement May 23, 2011 2:38:46 GMT -5
Post by alexbrown on May 23, 2011 2:38:46 GMT -5
Heres a peice of advice. Study one opening as white and stick to it. Dont chop and change.
(Should follow this advice myself.)
Post by petejwatts on Jun 6, 2011 21:31:28 GMT -5
I've said this before but imo the most important thing is to learn a Black defence. 50% of your games will be with Black, and a sound defence is automatically a sound white opening, but the reverse is not true. The Caro c6, Modern d6, and French e6 can all be played against d4 and e4.
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50 Cent Catches Break In Malpractice Suit Against Former Lawyers
March 6, 2019 AdminILI Entertainment News 0
50 Cent is never one to let a hatchet stay buried.
While 50 Cent has been known for doling out digital beatdowns and doing so with a chilling smile to boot, there once was a time when he took a massive legal blow. Back in 2007, during the height of his feud with Rick Ross, 50 Cent found himself in a legal battle with Ross’ baby mama. A battle that, by his estimation, cost him millions of dollars. Now, 50 Cent is moving forward in his quest to sue his former legal team, having been officially given the okay by a federal court judge, according to The Blast.
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Back in 2017, 50 Cent hit Reed Smith LLP with a lawsuit, accusing them of legal malpractice. As he tells it, Reed Smith LLP ultimately bungled his battle with Ross’ baby mama Lastonia Leviston, which went on to cost him $7 million dollars. Worse, the loss was one of the inciting incidents leading to Fif’s initial bankruptcy. As 50 tells it, his former team of 14 years did a poor job in handling the suit. Reed Smith LLP, however, has sung a different tune.
“[50 Cent] narrated and then published a sex tape without consent. Not surprisingly, he got sued,” explains Reed Smith. “After Raymond and Reed Smith defended this case for over five years, Jackson chose to go to trial with new lawyers, and he lost. He now seeks to blame his former lawyers for that loss, arguing that they should have done more, yet should have charged less.”
Despite their words, it would appear that Fif has caught a break. The presiding judge does not entirely see it that way, and claims unquestioned witnesses might have lessened the blow against Fif’s wallet. That’s not to say the rapper’s current case will end in victory, but he’ll be allowed to push forward nonetheless.
When you bite the hand that feeds you, It’s not hunger it’s greed. #lecheminduroi #bellator #bransoncognac
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After Passion (After)
Directed by: Jenny Gage
Writing credits: Susan McMartin, Anna Todd
Principal actors: Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Josephine Langford, Selma Blair, Jennifer Beals, Meadow Williams
The film begins with “There are moments which shape us, which we never forget.” Thus, we already have an inkling of the universal theme, which has a limited capacity for surprises. The title with the word “After” erases away any last doubts. It’s all over; we are looking back. Now we can watch a story unfold which we can already predict. Tessa (Josephine Langford) says good-bye to her boyfriend Noah (Dylan Arnold), and she and her mother Carol (Selma Blair) drive away to enroll Tessa for her first year of college. She checks into her dorm room; her roommate Steph (Khadijha Red Thunder) is a surprise: long hair dyed red, piercing, tattoos, hippie style clothes. She is the exact opposite of conservative, small-town Tessa, and, with a crew of friends, undertakes to show her the real world of parties, drinking and sex. Tessa meets Hardin (Hero Fiennes Tiffin); they date; their affair develops into “love.” That’s it. Luckily there are some small events which pep up the familiar plot. Another student Landon (Shane Paul McGhie) warns Tessa of Hardin’s problems. Strangely, there is a wedding between Hardin’s father (who is the director of the university) and Landon’s mother, making the two boys half-brothers. Tessa’s mother Carol is not amused that Tessa wastes time on a boy, ignoring her studies, and therefore cuts the money supply. Hardin solves that problem by moving both of them into a temporarily abandoned apartment.
Perhaps young people will enjoy this innocent love story. Anyone experienced will find it too 1950s, a fairy tale. The most satisfactory enjoyment is the chance to observe new, young actors, whom we will surely see more often in the future. It was based on the book by Anna Todd, which she originally began writing on her smartphone online under Wattpad. Her idea of Hardin was based on British musician Harry Styles, who helped form the band One Direction. Hero Fiennes Tiffin was chosen for the role partly “because he was British,” which makes me regret that I saw it in German, which prevented a difference of accents to make him stand out. Director Jenny Gage could benefit from her connections to the fashion trade, where Red Thunder, as well as Fiennes Triffin were successful models. Accomplished actors Jennifer Beals and Peter Gallagher showed up in bit parts. Filmed at Emory University, the Houward House and neighborhoods, including Stone Mountain Park, all in and around, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Luckily, the 22 pop songs help us forget the boring bling, bling music which underlies scenes which would have been better without music. (Becky Tan)
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Adherence to SOP: Has Kulgam tragedy made any difference?
Abid Bashir
Publish Date: Nov 25 2018 10:33AM
Updated Date: Nov 25 2018 10:34AM
Photo: Mir Waseem/GK
Of late, encounter sites have turned into death traps for people. The Kulgam explosion left a big question mark on the implementation of Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) of government forces.
Explosions caused by the littered explosive shells at the encounter sites are nothing new in Kashmir. But the killing of seven civilians at a gun-fight site at Laroo village of Kulgam district on October 21 definitely left some serious lessons to learn for the various security agencies operating in Kashmir.
The Kulgam incident picked up holes in the Standard Operating Procedure being followed by the police, army and the CRPF during the anti-militancy operations and subsequent law and order situation, especially protests at the encounter sites. The protest at the encounter sites pose a challenge for the forces as people, especially youth continue to rush towards the gunfight sites to help the trapped militants. The police claimed that the civilian killings at Kulgam were avoidable. Seven civilians were killed in the blast that occurred in Laroo village after a gunfight in which three Jaish-e-Muhammad militants were killed ended on October 21. Following the civilian killings that drew widespread condemnations, residents of Laroo accused forces of leaving the gunfight site without clearing it of unexploded material.
Locals alleged that the explosion was a deliberate attempt by forces to instil fear among the people who otherwise rush to the encounter sites to help clear the debris of the houses razed to the ground or damaged during the gunfights.
A resident of Laroo village, who identified himself as Abdur Rashid Wani, said that gunfight ended at 10 a.m and they heard a loud blast at 11.30 am. “There is no truth in the forces’ claim that youth entered into the house soon after the encounter. The million dollar question is how can forces violate their SOP that says until the area is sanitized they can’t leave the spot,” Wani said. Abdul Rehman Dar, a senior citizen from the Laroo village, also said that they lost seven young boys in the blast while dozens were injured. “Such an explosive material lies with the forces only and not the militants, who only carry a few grenades and a rifle,” said Dar.
Director general of police Dilbag Singh said that forces want to avoid Kulgam-like “incidents.” Singh urged the people to stay away from gunfight sites. “It was an unfortunate incident and we regret it. When an operation is over, there are apprehensions of unexploded explosives at the site and people, especially youth, should avoid going to such places or touch the debris. We have been asking people to avoid such sites,” he said.
Singh said: “We do not want such incidents. We have directed all forces to make sure there is no collateral damage in the operations (against militants) but people should not create such a situation which can lead to loss of innocent lives.”
Talking exclusively to the Kashmir Ink, additional director general of police (law and order/security), Munir Khan said while commenting on the serious allegations that as to why forces left Laroo gunfight site without sanitising it, said: “There was no violation of SOP in Kulgam. This has not happened for the first time. But yes, this time, we had a high casualty figure as we lost seven civilians. This all happened because groups of youth entered into the house soon after the bodies of three Jaish militants were retrieved. We have been requesting people time and again not to enter or rush to the encounter sites.”
The ADGP blamed people for not allowing the forces to sanitize the area and the encounter site. “Frenzied youth entered the house where the encounter had taken place within 30 minutes after forces retrieved the bodies of three Jaish militants,” he said.
A senior police officer, however, said they were “not given a chance by the agitated youth to clear the gunfight site.” He said: “We had just left the spot and the youth entered into the house. This has become their habit in southern Kashmir and yesterday it cost seven lives.”
‘SOP ON PAPERS ONLY’
Chairman International Forum for Justice and Human Rights, Muhammad Ahsan Untoo, has filed a petition before the State Human Rights Commission seeking a thorough investigation into the Kulgam civilian killings and injuries caused to dozens of others.
Earlier in July this year, a copy of SOP followed by the police and other agencies during anti-militancy operations was submitted by the police before the commission.
“There are 11 points which are part of SOP that need to be followed by forces while dealing with crowds. Firstly, no matter how big a protest at a gunfight site is, forces can’t leave the spot without sanitisation,” Untoo said. “While dealing with the protestors, forces have to use persuasion, mediation, negotiation and warning. If that fails, they are supposed to use water cannons, and then the third step is use of tear smoke shells.” Untoo said that if tear-gas shells also fail, forces can resort to cane-charge.
“Fifth option is use of rubber bullets or plastic bullets. If that too fails, forces can use Pump Action Gun which should be fitted with deflectors. The last stage is use of live ammunition. This is what the SOP for forces mentions,” he said. Untoo said that in Kashmir, “reverse is the case.” The members of the Group of Concerned Citizens (Jammu and Kashmir), which comprises academics, senior civil servants, jurists, journalists and trade union leaders, expressed deep shock over civilian killings at Kulgam district, saying they are aghast at the tragedy. The tragedy raises grave concerns about the “mode and manner of the security forces operation that left seven civilians dead and scores injured”. “The SOPs have been apparently violated, with impunity,” the GCC said in a statement. As per GCC, Kulgam killings raise many questions that remain unanswered and would be unrevealed if a thorough probe into the “brutal and dastardly incident is conducted.”
“We strongly condemn the loss of innocent lives and call for an impartial and time-bound probe into the painful incident at the highest level through credible persons so that those responsible for it are unmasked and dealt with under law. We express our heartfelt condolences to the bereaved families.”
Children most vulnerable to unexploded shells:
The accidents involving unexploded ordnance have always had devastating consequences. In Maloora area on Srinagar outskirts on February 14, 2011, a 14-year-old scrap dealer picked up a live grenade and started hammering it at his home. Within no time the shell exploded killing the boy identified as Noor Muhammad Bhat and his 11-year-old sister Bisma while inflicting grave injuries to their four-year-old sibling Muskaan, who later succumbed at the hospital.
The unexploded grenade was perhaps left behind five months earlier when two militants were killed barely a few yards from Bhat’s house. This was perhaps the first incident wherein unexploded shell claimed three lives of the same family, a police officer said. Since then at least 15 incidents took place in which many people, especially children got killed due to littered explosives left behind near sites of gun battles. Such incidents took place in Kulgam, Shopian, Bandipora, Kupwara, Srinagar and Barmulla districts of Kashmir,” a police officer admitted. “Five such incidents were reported from northern Baramulla and Bandipora districts alone.”
Activists attribute the deadly incidents to “callous sanitisation” of the sites of gun battles that are thronged by people as soon as government forces withdraw at the end of the encounter.
The same has been the case with the now vacated firing range of the army in the vast meadow of Tosmaidan. “Despite the fact that army vacated in 2015, dozens of unexploded shells continue to lie in the upper reaches of the Tosmaidan which continue to pose serious threat to lives,” said Raja Muzafar Bhat, a prominent Right to Information (RTI) activist. A police officer admitted over the past five or six years unexploded shells have taken a toll on little children who rush to encounter sites and find live grenades and play with mistaking it as toys. “The fault lies with the sanitisation. Forces don’t clean up the area where encounter takes place, with the result children or the house owner whose house gets damaged becomes the primary target,” said Bhat.
In its 2015 report, Kashmir’s independent rights group, Coalition of Civil Society (CCS) states that the armed forces and police were not paying any heed to the concerns expressed by the people and human rights group time and again over the littered explosions, which are turning playing fields into death traps.
“Mostly children died in the explosives scattered, unchecked,” the report reads. Police officers admit that sanitising the house or the area where a gun fight takes place is its responsibility, but say “the problem is that we don’t get time to clear the gun fight site in southern Kashmir.” “In Srinagar, we erected banners after the encounters were over that displayed message—don’t come closer, area under sanitization,” a police officer said. “The problem lies in south Kashmir, where people rush towards encounter sites soon after gunfight is over.”
Officials say police also repeatedly appealed the people of south Kashmir to allow forces to clean up the sites of encounters.
Defence spokesman in Srinagar, Colonel Rajesh Kalia said that the endeavour of army always remains to properly sanitise the encounter sites after firing stops. “However, due to law and order situations, which sometimes take place in south Kashmir areas, some pockets of the encounter sites may remain un-cleaned,” he admitted. “We appeal to the people whenever they find any suspicious thing near the gun fight site or while clearing the debris of the house where encounter takes place, they should not touch it and instead mark the area and immediately inform the closest army unit so that the live shell is diffused without any loss of life or the loss of limb.”
A LESSON LEARNT:
Soon after the recent gunfight ended at Soothu-Kothair on Nowgam outskirts in Srinagar on October 24 with the killing of two Hizbul Mujahideen militants including the research scholar-turned militant Sabzar Ahmed Sofi, the police and the CRPF didn’t leave the encounter spot without clearing the site. Additional director general of police, law and order/security Munir Khan said a banner was also erected displaying a message—‘don’t come closer, area being sanitized’. “We don’t want Kulgam like unfortunate incidents to repeat. The loss of seven civilians at Kulgam encounter site was very unfortunate. But people should also cooperate with us and not risk their lives,” Khan told the Kashmir Ink.
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Commentary, The Pilgrim's Progress
How Little-Faith Was Robbed
June 19, 2018 Ken 3 Comments
Then said Christian to his fellow, Now I call to remembrance, that which was told me of a thing that happened to a good man hereabout. The name of the man was Little-faith, but a good man, and he dwelt in the town of Sincere. The thing was this at the entering in at this passage, there comes down from Broad-way Gate, a lane called Dead Man’s Lane; so called because of the murders that are commonly done there; and this Little-faith going on pilgrimage, as we do now, chanced to sit down there, and slept. Now there happened, at that time, to come down the lane, from Broad-way Gate, three sturdy rogues, and their names were Faint-heart, Mistrust, and Guilt, (three brothers), and they espying Little-faith, where he was, came galloping up with speed. Now the good man was just awake from his sleep, and was getting up to go on his journey. So they came up all to him, and with threatening language bid him stand. At this Little-faith looked as white as a clout, and had neither power to fight nor fly. Then said Faint-heart, Deliver thy purse. But he making no haste to do it (for he was loath to lose his money), Mistrust ran up to him, and thrusting his hand into his pocket, pulled out thence a bag of silver. Then he cried out, Thieves! Thieves! With that Guilt, with a great club that was in his hand, struck Little-faith on the head, and with that blow felled him flat to the ground, where he lay bleeding as one that would bleed to death. All this while the thieves stood by. But, at last, they hearing that some were upon the road, and fearing lest it should be one Great-grace, that dwells in the city of Good-confidence, they betook themselves to their heels, and left this good man to shift for himself. Now, after a while, Little-faith came to himself, and getting up, made shift to scrabble on his way. This was the story.
While Christian and Hopeful reflect on the tragic end of Turn-away, Christian remembers an account of another pilgrim. Not far from where the pilgrims now stand, a man, whose name is Little-faith from the town of Sincere, was assaulted and robbed.
Little-faith represents those who are weak in faith and spiritually unprepared to face the trials and temptations of this world. He follows Christ, but lacks courage, confidence and comfort. In Lectures on The Pilgrim’s Progress, G.B. Cheeverdescribes such pilgrims as those who “go doubting and trembling through life.” Jesus often admonished his followers for having little faith:
Now if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is, and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will He not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? (Matthew 6:30)
Then His disciples came to Him and awoke Him, saying, “Lord, save us! We are perishing!” But He said to them, “Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?” Then He arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm (Matthew 8:25–26).
And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and caught him [Peter], and said to him, “O you of little faith, why did you doubt?” And when they got into the boat, the wind ceased (Matthew 14:31–32).
Now when His disciples had come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread. Then Jesus said to them, “Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees.” And they reasoned among themselves, saying, “It is because we have taken no bread.” But Jesus, being aware of it, said to them, “O you of little faith, why do you reason among yourselves because you have brought no bread? (Matthew 16:5–8)
Unlike Turn-away, Little-faith is a true believer. His testimony is genuine (sincere) and his faith is real. He is an honest pilgrim and has gained the reputation of being “a good man.” But he has failed to prepare his soul for spiritual warfare and fit himself for battle.
Paul exhorts us to “watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong” (1 Corinthians 16:13). In Ephesians 6:10 he says: “be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.” This Little-faith has not done. He has been content to rely on his own goodness more than Christ. He has treated sin far too lightly and allowed himself to walk too closely to the way of the world. Now as he looks for a place to rest on his journey, he lies down to sleep not in the Chamber of Peace (a place of rest and confidence in Christ) at Palace Beautiful where Christian found refuge, but in Dead Man’s lane (a place of danger and temptation to sin).
Scripture warns of the danger of straying into the path of sinners:
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23).
We must be careful in the paths we choose. Jesus spoke of only two ways in life:
Dead Man’s Lane is a treacherous path that connects the Broad Way (the way of the world that leads back to the city from which Christian fled—Destruction) with the Narrow Way (the way of Christ and the Scriptures that leads to the Celestial City—Heaven). It begins at the Broad Way Gate (the wide entrance through which all who embrace the way of world pass) and meets the Narrow Way at the entrance to the dark lane (a dark stretch of the Way where the light of Scripture has grown dim).
Here at this dangerous intersection with the world, Little-faith fell asleep. He unwisely let down his guard and made himself vulnerable. Soon he is attacked by three villains who come down from the Broad Way Gate: Faint-heart, Mistrust and Guilt. The attack is an insightful description of what happens when a believer gives into temptation and falls prey to sin.
The “three study rogues” come “galloping up with speed” and catch Little-faith off-guard. Before he has time to collect his thoughts or rouse his conscience, temptation is staring him down. The thieves threaten his life and Little-faith turns “white as a clout.” Little-faith’s fear identifies him as an easy target—a clout is a piece of white cloth used by archers for target practice (Webster Dictionary, 1828). Faint-heart (timidity) demands that he surrender his purse. Little-faith is slow to respond, but he loses his courage and offers little resistance. Mistrust (doubt and unbelief) sees an opportunity and rushes in to snatch a bag of silver from Little-faith’s pocket. The theft represents the loss Little-faith experiences when he gives into sin. No sooner does he cry out against his assailants than Guilt (shame and dishonor) moves in and beats him with a club—a club is similar to the one that Christian and Hopeful felt at the hands of Giant Despair in Doubling Castle.
Little-faith stumbles with each criminal. He is timid with Faint-heart, unbelieving with Mistrust, and ashamed with Guilt. William Mason summarizes:
Where there is a faint heart in God’s cause, and mistrust of God’s truths, there will be guilt in the conscience, and but little faith. These rogues will prevail over, and rob such souls of the comforts of God’s love and of Christ’s salvation.
Christian already had an encounter with a character named Mistrust. Earlier in the story, near the top of Hill Difficulty, Timorous (akin to Faint-heart) and Mistrust ran past Christian, fleeing the lions that prowl near the entrance to Palace Beautiful. The lions represented persecution of believers by the government and the state church. Many in Bunyan’s day were tempted to cower to political and ecclesiastical pressure. Bunyan had seen other ministers lose heart and deny the true gospel. When Bunyan was in prison, facing the threat of hanging for being a Non-conformist, he feared that he would have little faith and fall to this temptation. He explains in his autobiography, Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners:
I will tell you a pretty business; I was once above all the rest in a very sad and low condition for many weeks; at which time also I being but a young prisoner, and not acquainted with the laws, had this lay much upon my spirit, That my imprisonment might end at the gallows for aught that I could tell. Now, therefore, Satan laid hard at me to beat me out of heart, by suggesting thus unto me, But how if when you come indeed to die, you should be in this condition; that is, as not to savor the things of God, nor to have any evidence upon your soul for a better state hereafter? For indeed at that time all the things of God were hid from my soul.
Wherefore, when I at first began to think of this, it was a great trouble to me; for I thought with myself, that in the condition I now was in, I was not fit to die, neither indeed did think I could, if I should be called to it: besides, I thought with myself, if I should make a scrabbling shift to clamber up the ladder, yet I should either with quaking, or other symptoms of faintings, give occasion to the enemy to reproach the way of God and his people, for their timorousness. This therefore lay with great trouble upon me, for methought I was ashamed to die with a pale face, and tottering knees, for such a cause as this.
[Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners, par. 333-334]
Once Little-faith was robbed and beaten, the thieves did not stay long. They feared that other pilgrims would be traveling the Way, especially Great-grace from the town of Good Conscience (a pastor or fellow believer who is strong in faith). One of the best defenses God has given us as followers of Christ is our local church (Palace Beautiful) with its faithful leaders and brothers and sisters in Christ who will help us keep watch over our soul. It was a great disadvantage to Little-faith that he was traveling alone.
Little-faith is now left wounded and weakened. His purse has been plundered. Bunyan uses language from his autobiography when he tells us that Little-faith “made shift to scrabble on his way.” To shift means to change position or method when an initial attempt fails, especially in search of a way out of a difficult circumstance. To scrabble is to scrape along slowly on hands and knees as if climbing a cliff (Webster Dictionary, 1828). Little-faith is still intent on continuing his journey, but his progress now is more difficult. In the next post we will consider what exactly Little-faith lost.
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The Absence of The Creator in The Last Chrons
Kevin's Watch Forum Index -> The Last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant -> The Last Dark
the aging savage
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2014 8:45 am Post subject: The Absence of The Creator in The Last Chrons
I know this subject has been discussed in other threads and my appologies if there is a dedicated thread to it - I did try to find one, honestly, - but I'm doing my final re-read of the entire TC Chrons and the question is slapping me about the face with increasing severity as each day passes.
I'm into LFB [nearly finished in fact] and up to this point the Creator is an absolutely central plank of what is occuring. He is the Counterpoint to the Despiser, the one who chose Covenant to effect influence on Foul's/Drools summoning, the hope of the Land's inhabitants that Covenant will 'save' rather than 'damn' the world. He recieves numerous mentions and is central to even TC's attempting to grasp what is happening to him.
Then in the 2nd Chrons it is he who brings Linden into the field of play. He tells her 'There is also Love in the World' presageing TC and Lindens growing love for each other and giving her the strength to continue when all else seems lost.
Then in the 3rd Chrons - he is no more. There are some brief sentances that he may have 'abandoned his creation' [IIRC] and little more. And even at the end in the epilogue he recieves no mention. Whyfore this dissapearance? If I'm correct, the last time we encounter the Creator is infact the meeting between him and Linden at the beginning of 2C. The charachters of 3C do not refer to him [as do the charachters of 1C repeatedly]. TC and Linden do question his absence but there is no overt explanation to his dissapearance given in the text. This must mean that we have the information to work this out for ourselves, beyond the throwaway explanation that 'he has abbandoned his creation'. SRD clearly intends the story of the Third Chrons to shift our earlier [presumed] conceptions of what the Creator was, and his relation to TC, and come up with a new understanding that would negate any need for 'explanation' at the culmination of the story. There is a seismic shift in our understanding of the Creators earlier prominence needed - and I'm currently not getting it.
{Was TC the Creator as well as Foul all the time? Was the Insequent figure at the end related to the Creators absence or was it the Creator? }
[This is not intended to be a 'Last Chrons is Crap' thread unless this is the real thrust of your argument to explain the above conundrum. I'd like to actually investigate the TC/Creator relationship in a way I have not seen before - but having said that 'all replies welcome' (nobody likes to see their thread consigned to the dustbin of 'zero replys' if they can help it - I've had a few }]
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....and the glory of the world becomes less than it was....
'Have we not served you well'
'Of course - you know you have.'
'Then let it end.'
We are the Bloodguard
I'm rather partial to the notion that the Creator had let Covenant inherit his duties by that time.
The Land of the Second Chronicles, Sunbane et al, was created as much by Covenant as anyone else. Or, at least, he was responsible through his actions, destroying the Staff, etc. At the end, it was he who spoke to Linden in the aether as she returned to the real world, whereas the job had formerly been the Creator's, which symbolically demonstrates that Covenant had that job now. In the Last Chronicles, this was even more palpably true, but I want to express that this was signaled before the Last Chronicles.
This is why we never heard from the Creator again since TWL.
So, in a way, the Creator wasn't necessarilly abandoning his world. But he was staying hands-off, to let his chosen successor take the reigns. It's still a form of intentional withdrawal, but without the overtones of uncaring.
I'm not saying that's THE reason. But it's the one I like.
Other things you could point out: If the Creator had warned Linden, she would have fled with Jeremiah, leaving the Land to die. The Creator only speaks to his candidates once, no matter how many times they go to the Land, and so he would not have spoken to Linden anyway. He didn't speak to Jeremiah because Jeremiah had already been to the Land.
Jeremiah had already been to the Land. And who spoke to him there? Covenant! I rest my case.
* I occasionally post things on KevinsWatch because I am a fan of Stephen R. Donaldson; this should not be considered as condonation of the white nationalist propaganda for which this forum has become a platform.
Vraith
Obligate Metaphor
Location: everywhere, all the time
I could be wrong...but it seems to me people way overestimate the presence of the creator, even in the First. But anyway, this:
Pretty much. Somewhere, I think I said something like "the creator picked his team, and he's sticking with it."
He didn't "abandon" them...he set them free, because they are ready
AND speaking to them again, IMO, would have weakened them not strengthened them
AND the world not his,
it if for living/breathing/growing...
it is not his,
it is their lives/meaning/purpose.
AND: at a fundamental level, [I've talked about this before, maybe] an essential problem with LF isn't ONLY that he is "Evil," it is that he doesn't "belong" there.
He will always need to be separated/walled off/controlled...or the world dies an "unnatural" death.
The same is true of the Creator...his very presence/influence would eventually break the world no matter his intentions or goodness.
Since he IS "good," he kept himself outside.
If/when TC, Linden, and all the folk of the world "pass on," they might find that Creator "out there." Probably sitting before a fire in a comfy chair with some fine brandy and looking very pleased with himself.
[[before you say, if you are going to, "But he DID talk to/influence/choose them before," keep in mind that it wasn't him alone...it was both he and LF together, in balance,
and those they chose were people "in balance," in a way...that particular balance being "on a tightrope, where they could fall either way."]]
Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
Swamp Thang
Location: Dahm dahm, dahm do dahm obby do
..Along those same lines of thought about the Creator; the Creator is of the Land, the Creator of the Land that existed before Covenant got leprosy. His creation was of the successful popular writer happily married with son out in the countryside with a few horses; quite the ideal, bucolic, yet mundane. The Creator with rags for clothing, rotten teeth, etc etc, indicates problems in " paradise".
So, the arc of Thomas Covenant, the From To, can be perceived in metaphor that has the Creator as the " From". The Land of having it made, yet , at its core, something is wrong. There is rot in the center of it. As the Tale progresses, the Creator becomes non sequitor because the Tale is about the " To", Thomas Covenant's Future, Forward. By that , its about anybody's future. As already observed, the Tale is about the changes required to keep the Land going forward, into the future, rather than repeating the Past...imho.
If she withdrew from exaltation, she would be forced to think- And every thought led to fear and contradictions; to dilemmas for which she was unprepared.
pg4 TLD
I have to disagree V. [dangerous I know ], I think, having just re-read LFB I found the Creators presence greater than I had previousely assumed. Sure - he's not there in the flesh, but he is behind everything; a presence that is felt, if not seen [much like Foul himself actually].
I buy Wayfriends explanation re his handing over the reins to TC [although this in itself begs 100 more questions], this feels right, but I'm less sure about the 'only once' part. At the conclusion of TPTP [when to all intents and purpouses, prior to LDR getting to work on SRD, the story was wrapped up, the Creator did return to TC to speak to him for a second time, and it is this abcense of communication at the very end that troubles me.
Possibly V. has hit a salient point with the observation that LF is not 'of' the Land. This very need for him to be 'walled off', to be emprisoned [and the absence of the Creator at the end] leads me to thinking [and I'm sure it has been expressed elsewhere] that this story is not over [in fact did the Epilogue not almost hint as much]. Sure - the team is in place, the pieces are set on the board - but I think the main act is perhaps yet to come. Now we will never see this act to be sure - but are we not inexorably led to the conclusion that the story of The Unbeliever is not meant to be seen as completed., that there is more to follow to which we will not be party - and this is not a problem because we have been given the tools to complete the job for ourselves.
nice guy peter wrote:
but are we not inexorably led to the conclusion that the story of The Unbeliever is not meant to be seen as completed., that there is more to follow to which we will not be party - and this is not a problem because we have been given the tools to complete the job for ourselves.
On this, I agree without the tiniest quibble. I'd go even a step futher: we aren't merely led to that conclusion, I'm almost positive...without going to the book right now...that it flat out SAYS it, in black and white.
They have "solved" one essential, existential "problem" of life...but does anyone think that is the only problem there IS?
And, even if there were only the one, the "solution" itself isn't a goal/destination reached...it's just a method of walking. [well, apparently some can run and/or fly...but still. ]
Or, perhaps less, cliche [or not] and more "high-brow" [or not]...variation on theme of your last sentence...they know the language, they've got the techniques...now they have to write the poem [and it is an epic: the life and times of all, the entire future of the world]
Heh...edited to add, cuz I hit submit and forgot the last sentence: and what is true for them CAN be true for us.
Gilden-Fire
Servant of the Land
I was *convinced* that just as the Arch broke and Foul was on his way out, the Creator would smack his ass down somehow. The Arch works two ways, after all. So, since it would no longer be working as a barrier, that meant the Creator was then "free" to interfere by bringing the pain to Foul.
But ... that didn't happen.
Interesting point GF ... er ... I mean Gilden-Fire!
In the first two Chronicles, that certainly seemed to be the case. However, in the Last Cs, somehow there is the notion that if Foul gets out, the Creator is in a world of hurt. Possibly because of Jeremiah. Or maybe just because things have changed.
Otherwise, letting Foul free along with SWMNBN would have been possible, which would have obviated much of the premise.
Be True
There are lots of possibilities. What bugs me the most is not his absence, but rather that his absence was supposed to be the "Mother of All Spoilers." But then it wasn't.
Or we're missing something extremely important.
Passing the torch to TC (WF's interpretation) doesn't really spoil anything. It's certainly not the Mother of anything. In fact, it seems the opposite of a spoiler: it was the Creator's first act in LFB, to hand off the torch to Covenant by sending him to the Land as his own representative, since he couldn't go there himself.
Maybe the obvious is right in front of us: the Creator wasn't there because TC = Creator, and he was dead.
Or perhaps TC's journey in the 2nd Chrons did for the Creator what the Last Chrons did for Foul: TC internalized him. Maybe that's what his Apotheosis was all about.
This is the only thing I can think of that would count as "MoAS" because it mirrors the final confrontation w/Foul in the LC, and gives away the ending of the entire saga. If we knew that TC had simply absorbed the Creator, we'd realize he could do the same thing for Foul, and have the ending.
So that's my guess.
Meaning is created internally by each individual in each specific life: any attempt at *meaning* which relies on some kind of external superstructure (God, Satan, the Creator, the Worm, whatever) for its substance misses the point (I mean the point of my story). -SRD
Remain faithful to the earth, my brothers, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth ... Do not let them fly away from earthly things and beat with their wings against eternal walls. Alas, there has always been so much virtue that has flown away. Lead back to the earth the virtue that flew away, as I do-back to the body, back to life, that it may give the earth a meaning, a human meaning. -Nietzsche
The answer to this has always seemed so obvious to me that it constantly annoys me that Linden keeps whining about it.
He appeared once to TC at the beginning of the first chrons.
Not when he went in the 2nd. Not even when he went the other 2 times in the first.
He appeared once to Linden when she went at the beginning of the 2nd.
She knew he hadn't appeared to TC again. Why should she be special?
He also appears to have appeared to J at some point...at least, I think the Croyel said so.
Everybody clearly only gets one apparition.
--A
It's easy to judge. It's more difficult to understand.
dlbpharmd
Location: Jacksboro, TN.
I don't recall this.
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 7:30 am Post subject:
Can't swear to it, but think it's in FR when J is telling Linden about him coming to the land and meeting TC etc. Maybe I'm wrong.
Either way though, once to TC and once to Linden. Why did she expect another visit?
Here is a thought...maybe the Grass Stains on Linden's jeans since Runes..are the Creator. The Land, made by the Creator, communicating in the only way it can to Linden of its inherent beauty: a reminder from The Creator,,?
Posted: Sun Apr 06, 2014 11:25 pm Post subject:
Avatar wrote:
I agree, she did expect a visit. Remember Covenant's surprise when Linden asked who the old man in the driveway was? He was just as angry and surprised that he didn't get a 2nd visit. This is part of the reason why I thought that Jeremiah would reveal that the Creator came to see him.
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SkurjMaster
Warlike Unfettered
Posted: Mon Apr 07, 2014 4:08 pm Post subject: Creator
I was disappointed that he did not appear to anyone at the beginning of the LC. But once the Arch was broken, he could have made an appearance even briefly without doing any damage. SRD's choice to simply suggest that the Creator had abandoned his creation was a disappointment. Why not use the chance to appear to Jeremiah and at least provide some closure with that 'thread' of the story?
Condign
290 White Gold Dollars
Posted: Sun May 11, 2014 4:28 am Post subject: Re: Creator
SkurjMaster wrote:
SRD's choice to simply suggest that the Creator had abandoned his creation was a disappointment.
Holy crap I never thought of it in that light.
Extending this line of thought, with SRD as the actual 'creator' of the Land….
A copious vocabulary is no substitute for intelligence.
All hail Eris!
I thought TC was the creator and so was in the series. If TC is Foul, then shouldn't it follow that he is the creator, too? And, following that thought, he must also be all of the characters in all of the series as well.
Monsters, they eat
Your kind of meat
And they're moving as far as they can
And as fast as they can
Mighara Sovmadhi
A shadow on the heart of the Earth
Location: Near where Broken Social Scene is gonna play on October 15th, 2010
Zarathustra's argument has struck me a lot, so I'm hesitant to pose my own answer when his seems possibly better/simpler. But, here goes...
In a poem in the First Chronicles, I think the first book even, maybe the first poem from the Land!, uh, there's some line that goes something like "the Law is the Creator's self-command." This fits in a lot with the role of the morality of self-command throughout the ethos of the series. (It also reflects something from some modern Presbyterian/Reformed theology about the laws of physics being "God's regular ways of acting in the world.") Basically, the order of Life and Death in Time results in a state where the Creator maintains the creation in a different way than he caused it, namely originally it was sort of from prime-matter/ex-nihiloish but now he has to maintain his self-command, his moral and not power status, or the world will end.
So we are told later (have no idea when exactly but I'm sure the saying will ring familiar) that even though Law is not the opposite of Despite per se or whatever, even so, prior to the advent of white gold in the Land (this part's from FR), the Despiser's favored means of attempting to break the Arch was to commit massive, hideous atrocities to try to provoke his brother/shadow into intervening. Now nothing he ever did was quite hideous enough, it seems. So the Arch never broke.
Later, though, by the end of the series, the Arch does break, Covenant's resurrection being the context, and moreover the final violation of the Laws of Life and Death.
The Creator does intervene in the Last Chronicles, and his doing so is what breaks the Arch in the end, but from the in-world POV it "looks like" the Worm waking up. Basically, Linden "prays too hard" and forces the Creator's hand, forcing his power, the wild magic graven in every rock and stone, for the metal of that power to unleash or control: forces it to resurrect Covenant while invoking the Staff of Law, which embodies the Creator's self-command itself(!).
At least, this is what I think. The Creator never "appears" not because he's "not there" but because the way he was present to the Land's Earth anyway was mystical more than directly physical. The point about the Despiser was that he was imprisoned in the creation. Since on SRD's "theology" God is two divine persons (the Creator and the Despiser), the casting-down of the evil one is akin to the Fall of Satan, on the one hand, and the Incarnation of the Son of God on the other. The presence of the Despiser in the world itself, though, did not of itself break the Arch, which means that Despite is not the opposite of, is not what automatically-intrinsically cancels out, the Law, not on this or whatever relevant level. (Obviously there are individual acts for the sake of the Law that oppose individual acts for the sake of Despite, and we can also go on to say that there are no acts of Despite that support or promote the Law but perhaps are only somehow slightly consistent with it. In fact, the nature of the Vile-sequence "unLawfulness" and the very possibility of breaking the Laws of Life and Death themselves in the world, might depend on such distinctions.) Or, put another way, the "banes" represent evil laws of physics, symbolically concentrated in certain ways, some irredeemable (the Illearth Stone) while others reconcilable all the way ("Diassomer Mininderain").
But so anyway, it follows that Covenant's resurrection amounted to an in-world representation of the Creator entering his creation. The old man in "our" world didn't have to show up for the Creator per se to show up, since as far as the Law-as-divine-self-discipline concept goes, he is present to the Land as the Law itself to a great extent. Or, rather, his power is, from which he might be elsewise inferred (does anyone else recall the atheist Lord from LFB? or am I misremembering the passage?). But he is not directly intuitively present, so to speak, except that in Covenant, in that world, he has become so by virtue of Covenant's dual nature (as a human from the reality in which the Creator manifested as a beggar, and as the future Timewarden). So just as the Despiser can be said to be somehow "Incarnate" as Covenant, then, so the Despiser, to fulfill his plan, would implicitly seek to make the Creator Incarnate, through Covenant, also, which is, again, what really does, maybe, seem to happen...
On a whole other level...
We make a lot out of the fact that the beggar appears to Covenant and Linden variously, but do we take note of the fact that in the Second Chronicles he only appears to Linden--who herself is then the one who appears to Covenant?
Covenant tries to give his ring to guy, is turned aside, but then gets a note from the fellow. I think Covenant does smell his breath or something (forgive me but I only have a tattered copy of WGW and then an intact copy of TLD to my name!) but he most certainly does not inhale the guy's seeming dying breath itself, which on the Christian imagery at play somewhere deep in the archetypes of the text is rather like an image of God the Father breathing the God the Holy Spirit into someone.
It is not in Covenant himself, then, at first, that the Creator's inheritance has been placed. Though he is said to be the Creator's son in some way in TPTP (IIRC), he is not yet so much like Christ the crucified as Christ the triumphant in the Harrowing of Hell. Perhaps the latter event really ought to be acknowledged for its soteriological importance (if you believe in this sort of thing...) but anyway, again, Linden retains the memory of the beggar and of Covenant after Covenant dies, and relates this through her subconscious mannerisms to her savant adopted child, who incorporates her love for Covenant into his subconscious world as Covenant coming to him in the ethereal plane of the Land and its Earth. But anyway, the point is, as the bearer of the real white gold ring in the real world--by being the one who, when she dies, actually is holding the thing, or whatever--and given all the other circumstances listed above, it seems as if Linden is, so to speak, the Creator (too?).
This might sound absurd but recall that when she is in the past, reality has been so transfigured by her presence that her very mind is indistinguishable from the Arch of Time (which, again, is merged with Covenant!). Linden and Covenant are united as importantly as the two divine persons in the Land's God are, and as importantly as Covenant is united with the Despiser. In fact the entire image of their marriage can be seen as a transfiguration of the antithesis that obtains between the Brothers of God (so to speak--brothers of each other, though, haha!), one in which the divine nature's disharmony is mystically brought into equilibrium (where the inner Creators and inner Despisers for both Covenant and Linden are reconciled...). Ultimately, this has to play out "externally" (in the even so rather internalized realm of the Land) in a physically tangible internalization of the Despiser in Covenant, why I can't say, but I'm fairly confident this kind of idea was on SRD's mind when he decided to "solve" the problem of Despite by sealing the Despiser not in the creation but in Covenant (which here means, what? that the Despiser is imprisoned inside the Creator?!).
EDIT: To make this more compatible with the other train of thought...
Linden is, of course, the one who resurrects Covenant. I said that she "prays too hard" but then again if she is in some way the Creator (after all, did she herself not recreate the Law of the Land, to some degree, in WGW?--so is this not her "self-command" on some level too?), so perhaps she's praying to herself, who knows, but anyway if she inherited the Spirit of the Creator in TWL, then maybe the thing really just is that, since she's the one who's breaking the Law of Life and Death to the ultimate degree, and since she's also from "the real world" and has the ring and survives in WGW in the "real world," and since she's the one who is raising Jeremiah, and since she's the one who Covenant loves and is united with like the Creator is with the Despiser on some primordial level...
... then the Creator was there all along, not just in the Law or in Covenant or in the Despiser, but in--as--Linden Avery.
EDIT 2: On another level... Linden basically resurrects the Creator in TWL when she saves him from a heart attack or whatever. Symbolically, this has got to mean a lot, especially with respect to the whole question of resurrecting Covenant with Covenant-as-the-Creator-somehow.
Also, the resurrection of Christ is advanced in the religion as the ultimate miracle. Well, in the Land, a miracle would threaten to break the Arch, so resurrecting someone, if the ultimate miracle, would break the Arch at a glance (so to speak). Now the resurrection of Covenant is not a miracle directly, so to speak, since the logic of the ring's power, plus the logic of the Staff and the sword's powers, equals the logic of bringing Covenant back from the dead (though it is interesting that he is explained as in some sense having been "formed from" Linden's memory of him IIRC), perhaps, but at the same time, wild magic's logic is such as is given to breaking the Arch in the end, so it is not to be thought that there is only a distinctive direct way for wild magic to end the world. That is, yes, too much at once, so to speak, too much channeled with no sufficient barrier, would rive the Arch "directly," but there is a more than sufficient barrier in place during the resurrection sequence and yet without the contribution of this might's quantum of value to the equation, the solution to the equation would not have been such as resulted in something ending the world, even if the manner of that ending lies in the Worm.
Wosbald
A Brainwashed Religious Flunkie
Thanx for resurrecting this, Mig.
I would say (and have said) that the Creator was there purely as Providence (i.e. in a wholly normative manner). This is the way in which he was always there, even from 1st Chrons, but in the LCs, this providential presence comes without the baggage of any extra-worldly narrative.
A while back, this was my take on the subject beginning HERE.
This seems, pretty much, to have been the meat of my contribution ...
Wosbald wrote:
Her mistake was in thinking that she could do evil to accomplish good. Cocksure and reckless, she spends the entire series making mistakes (on the main). That good comes about from them points toward the other pole of the mystery (which stands in contrast to SDR's earlier treatment of Free Will): Providence.
Now that's a pretty interesting take on the situation. I'd like to explore that. (And not to say 'you're wrong'.) IIUC, you seem to think that Linden had hubris, but was constantly rescued from it's logical result by something like divine intervention. Is that the essence of it?
Basically.
I was about a 100 pages or so through AATE, when I was thinking, "gee this seems like Providence may well be an overarching theme of the LCs". And sho'nuff, a few chapters later, the word "providence" (or "providential") is used. It's used at least 3 or 4 times in the last 2 books of the LCs.
This would explain why is the Creator is "not there", as a character, in the LCs. He's not there because he's been there the whole time -- been there working (normatively) through natural causes, as opposed to miraculous ones, as is his wont.
Providence brings good from evil (the Mahdoubt marvels how such a thing can be). Providence always weaves the plans of the evildoer back into the tapestry of good. (Other than willing cooperation of the Free Being which can never be compelled,) God always gets what he wants; only the Free Being suffers loss.
It seems to me that this theme echos Tolkien's treatment of Illuvatar and Melkor: And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined.
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Georgia HS Playoffs: Rd. 3 Previews and Predictions
ATLANTA -- 11Alive takes a look at Georgia's high school playoff games and their predicted outcomes with Atlanta.HighSchoolSports.net and Massey Matchups.
Family Returns From Search For Missing Boater.
Wednesday, November 24th, 2010, 11:48pm
Angie Cushwa and her parents emerge from the Avondale MARTA station Wednesday night with an emotional heaviness that one does not normally see from those coming back to Atlanta from the Bahamas.
They literally hold hands to hold each other up.
The exhaustion and strain on their faces show that this was no vacation. In fact, it was a desperate mission to find Angie's sister, Laura Zekoll, who disappeared more than a week ago when the sailboat she was on capsized.
Hillgrove Looks to Win Third Road Playoff Game
POWDER SPRINGS, GA -- Hillgrove entered the postseason on a four-game winning streak, but as Region 4-5A's number three seed, the Hawks had a tough draw ahead of them. The Cobb County school would have to go on the road to face 9-1 Stephenson in the first round and then have to play at nationally-ranked Camden County in Round Two. So, despite their 8-2 record, many people wrote off the Hawks. Clearly, that was a mistake.
First, Hillgrove beat Stephenson, a team that started the season 9-0, by a score of 28-23.
Then, the Hawks had to travel six hours down to Kingsland (GA) to take on the two-time defending 5A champion Camden County Wildcats. Hillgrove won that game 28-26.
Family Ends Search for Missing Atlanta Boater
Lawrenceville, GA -- Family and friends of Laura Zekoll will return to Atlanta Wednesday night after finding no signs of her in the Bahamas, where she is considered lost at sea.
"We did an extensive, exhaustive and massive search for Laura by both boat and on land," said Angie Cushwa, Laura's sister.
Zekoll was last seen on November 13 clinging to a capsized sailboat near the Bahamas. She was wearing a life jacket at the time.
Her sister, parents and best friends flew to the Bahamas over the weekend to work with local expert and warden Brent Bass, who was referred to the family by the U.S. Embassy.
"We will be forever grateful to Brent Bass!" Cushwa said in a statement released by a close friend. "He helped our family do everything humanly possible to help us locate Laura. He is a wonderful man."
Zekoll's family began private search efforts after the U.S. Coast Guard called off the official search last week.
FBI Looking For Serial Bank Robber
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2010, 6:02pm
ATLANTA (AP) - The FBI is searching for a suspected serial bank robber who has struck three banks in the last week.
Authorities say the same woman who robbed bank branches in Lilburn and Redan Village also stuck up a Wells Fargo Bank branch Monday in Snellville. But they say she wasn't able to get any money during that heist because a dye pack exploded.
The robber is described as a black female who is between 25 and 35 and wearing a white bandage on the right side of her face as a possible disguise.
Wells Fargo is offering a reward of up to $5,000 leading to the suspect's capture and conviction.
Anyone with information is urged to contact the FBI at 404 679 9000.
Private Search for Atlanta Boater Begins in Bahamas
Sunday, November 21st, 2010, 8:02pm
Lawrenceville, GA -- The official search is over, but family and friends are determined to find Laura Zekoll, an Atlanta woman last seen a week ago clinging to a capsized sailboat near the Bahamas.
Laura's sister, Angie Cushwa of Lawrenceville, flew to the Bahamas on Sunday to begin a private search for Laura. Her parents and four friends are joining the effort.
"We just hope and pray that we can find her," said Mike Cushwa, who's keeping tabs on the family through their Facebook page, "Laura Zekoll-Bring Her Home."
Laura was one of four people on a sailboat that capsized off the coast of the Bahamas on Saturday, November 13. Everyone else on board survived.
But after three days, the U.S. Coast Guard called off the search for Laura, who was wearing a life jacket.
Lighthouse Retreats Aid Cancer Families
Atlanta- - It is a remarkable idea that helped more than 700 families families deal with childhood cancer.
The Lighthouse Family Retreat founded in 1999 serves children with cancer and their families at Seaside and other beaches along 30-A.
Lighthouse has a simple directive helping kids and their parents to laugh, restore family relationships and find hope in spirituality.
The 2010 Patron's of Hope Dinner was held inside the Doubletree Buckhead-Atlanta Hotel.
Entertainer Jeff Foxworthy was among those in attendance.
The event also recognized the efforts of Atlanta businessman Charles Renfroe who has been a driving force behind the organization.
Each retreat is comprised of approximately 12 retreat families and 30 volunteers who serve the families by cooking, cleaning and taking care of daily responsibilities so that the retreat families can focus on having fun together.
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Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone; Sheila Heen
Call Number: Stone
The bestselling authors of the classic Difficult Conversations teach us how to turn evaluations, advice, criticisms, and coaching into productive listening and learning We swim in an ocean of feedback. Bosses, colleagues, customers—but also family, friends, and in-laws—they all have “suggestions” for our performance, parenting, or appearance. We know that feedback is essential for healthy relationships and professional development—but we dread it and often dismiss it. That’s because receiving feedback sits at the junction of two conflicting human desires. We do want to learn and grow. And we also want to be accepted just as we are right now. Thanks for the Feedback is the first book to address this tension head on. It explains why getting feedback is so crucial yet so challenging, and offers a powerful framework to help us take on life’s blizzard of off-hand comments, annual evaluations, and unsolicited advice with curiosity and grace. The business world spends billions of dollars and millions of hours each year teaching people how to give feedback more effectively. Stone and Heen argue that we’ve got it backwards and show us why the smart money is on educating receivers— in the workplace and in personal relationships as well.
Asymmetry by Lisa Halliday
Call Number: Halliday
A singularly inventive and unforgettable debut novel about love, luck, and the inextricability of life and art, from 2017 Whiting Award winner Lisa Halliday. Told in three distinct and uniquely compelling sections, Asymmetry explores the imbalances that spark and sustain many of our most dramatic human relations: inequities in age, power, talent, wealth, fame, geography, and justice. The first section, "Folly," tells the story of Alice, a young American editor, and her relationship with the famous and much older writer Ezra Blazer. A tender and exquisite account of an unexpected romance that takes place in New York during the early years of the Iraq War, "Folly" also suggests an aspiring novelist's coming-of-age. By contrast, "Madness" is narrated by Amar, an Iraqi-American man who, on his way to visit his brother in Kurdistan, is detained by immigration officers and spends the last weekend of 2008 in a holding room in Heathrow. These two seemingly disparate stories gain resonance as their perspectives interact and overlap, with yet new implications for their relationship revealed in an unexpected coda.
Mrs. by Caitlin Macy
Call Number: Macy
In the well-heeled milieu of New York's Upper East Side, coolly elegant Philippa Lye is the woman no one can stop talking about. Despite a shadowy past, Philippa has somehow married the scion of the last family-held investment bank in the city. And although her wealth and connections put her in the center of this world, she refuses to conform to its gossip-fueled culture. Then, into her precariously balanced life, come two women: Gwen Hogan, a childhood acquaintance who uncovers an explosive secret about Philippa's single days, and Minnie Curtis, a newcomer whose vast fortune and frank revelations about a penurious upbringing in Spanish Harlem put everyone on alert. When Gwen's husband, a heavy-drinking, obsessive prosecutor in the US Attorney's Office, stumbles over the connection between Philippa's past and the criminal investigation he is pursuing at all costs, this insulated society is forced to confront the rot at its core and the price it has paid to survive into the new millennium.
Call Number: Westover
Publication Date: 2018-
Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills" bag. In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged metal in her father's junkyard. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when an older brother became violent. When another brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University. There, she studied psychology, politics, philosophy, and history, learning for the first time about pivotal world events like the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home. Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty, and of the grief that comes from severing one's closest ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes, and the will to change it.
The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning by Margareta Magnusson
Call Number: Magnusson
A charming, practical, and unsentimental approach to putting a home in order while reflecting on the tiny joys that make up a long life. In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called dostadning, do meaning "death" and stadning meaning "cleaning." This surprising and invigorating process of clearing out unnecessary belongings can be undertaken at any age or life stage but should be done sooner than later, before others have to do it for you. In The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, artist Margareta Magnusson, with Scandinavian humor and wisdom, instructs readers to embrace minimalism. Her radical and joyous method for putting things in order helps families broach sensitive conversations, and makes the process uplifting rather than overwhelming.
Brain Food by Lisa Mosconi
Call Number: Mosconi
Like our bodies, our brains have very specific food requirements. And in this eye-opening book from an author who is both a neuroscientist and a certified integrative nutritionist, we learn what should be on our menu.
Dr. Lisa Mosconi, whose research spans an extraordinary range of specialties including brain science, the microbiome, and nutritional genomics, notes that the dietary needs of the brain are substantially different from those of the other organs, yet few of us have any idea what they might be. Her innovative approach to cognitive health incorporates concepts that most doctors have yet to learn. Busting through advice based on pseudoscience, Dr. Mosconi provides recommendations for a complete food plan, while calling out noteworthy surprises, including why that paleo diet you are following may not be ideal, why avoiding gluten may be a terrible mistake, and how simply getting enough water can dramatically improve alertness.
Macbeth by Jo Nesbø
Call Number: Nesbo
Set in the 1970s in a run-down, rainy industrial town, Jo Nesbo's Macbeth centers around a police force struggling to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom--a master of manipulation named Hecate--has connections with the highest in power, and plans to use them to get his way. Hecate's plot hinges on steadily, insidiously manipulating Inspector Macbeth: the head of SWAT and a man already susceptible to violent and paranoid tendencies. What follows is an unputdownable story of love and guilt, political ambition, and greed for more, exploring the darkest corners of human nature, and the aspirations of the criminal mind.
I Am, I Am, I Am by Maggie O'Farrell
Call Number: O'Farrell
I Am, I Am, I Am is Maggie O'Farrell's astonishing memoir of the near-death experiences that have punctuated and defined her life. The childhood illness that left her bedridden for a year, which she was not expected to survive. A teenage yearning to escape that nearly ended in disaster. An encounter with a disturbed man on a remote path. And, most terrifying of all, an ongoing, daily struggle to protect her daughter--for whom this book was written--from a condition that leaves her unimaginably vulnerable to life's myriad dangers. Seventeen discrete encounters with Maggie at different ages, in different locations, reveal a whole life in a series of tense, visceral snapshots. In taut prose that vibrates with electricity and restrained emotion, O'Farrell captures the perils running just beneath the surface, and illuminates the preciousness, beauty, and mysteries of life itself.
Call Number: Adeyemi
Zélie Adebola remembers when the soil of Orïsha hummed with magic. Burners ignited flames, Tiders beckoned waves, and Zélie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls. But everything changed the night magic disappeared. Under the orders of a ruthless king, maji were killed, leaving Zélie without a mother and her people without hope. Now Zélie has one chance to bring back magic and strike against the monarchy. With the help of a rogue princess, Zélie must outwit and outrun the crown prince, who is hell-bent on eradicating magic for good.
Usefulness of the Useless by Nuccio Ordine
Call Number: Ordine
International Best Seller / Now in English for the First Time In this thought-provoking and extremely timely work, Nuccio Ordine convincingly argues for the utility of useless knowledge and against the contemporary fixation on utilitarianism--for the fundamental importance of the liberal arts and against the damage caused by their neglect. Inspired by the reflections of great philosophers and writers (e.g., Plato, Dante, Montaigne, Shakespeare, Borges, and Calvino), Ordine reveals how the obsession for material goods and the cult of utility ultimately wither the spirit, jeopardizing not only schools and universities, art, and creativity, but also our most fundamental values--human dignity, love, and truth.
Call Me by Your Name by André Aciman
Call Number: Aciman
Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spiritsis a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime.
Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
Call Number: Morgan
In the twenty-fifth century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve") making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen. Ex-U.N. envoy Takeshi Kovacs has been killed before, but his last death was particularly painful. Dispatched one hundred eighty light-years from home, re-sleeved into a body in Bay City (formerly San Francisco, now with a rusted, dilapidated Golden Gate Bridge), Kovacs is thrown into the dark heart of a shady, far-reaching conspiracy that is vicious even by the standards of a society that treats "existence" as something that can be bought and sold.
The Slow Regard of Silent Things by Patrick Rothfuss
Call Number: Rothfuss
Political Tribes by Amy Chua
Call Number: Chua
The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many parts of the world, the group identities that matter most - the ones that people will kill and die for - are ethnic, religious, sectarian, or clan-based. But because America tends to see the world in terms of nation-states engaged in great ideological battles - Capitalism vs. Communism, Democracy vs. Authoritarianism, the "Free World" vs. the "Axis of Evil" - we are often spectacularly blind to the power of tribal politics. Time and again this blindness has undermined American foreign policy. In the Vietnam War, viewing the conflict through Cold War blinders, we never saw that most of Vietnam's "capitalists" were members of the hated Chinese minority. Every pro-free-market move we made helped turn the Vietnamese people against us. In Iraq, we were stunningly dismissive of the hatred between that country's Sunnis and Shias. If we want to get our foreign policy right - so as to not be perpetually caught off guard and fighting unwinnable wars - the United States has to come to grips with political tribalism abroad.
Consider the Lobster by David Foster Wallace
Call Number: Wallace
Do lobsters feel pain? Did Franz Kafka have a funny bone? What is John Updike's deal, anyway? And what happens when adult video starlets meet their fans in person? David Foster Wallace answers these questions and more in essays that are also enthralling narrative adventures. Whether covering the three-ring circus of a vicious presidential race, plunging into the wars between dictionary writers, or confronting the World's Largest Lobster Cooker at the annual Maine Lobster Festival, Wallace projects a quality of thought that is uniquely his and a voice as powerful and distinct as any in American letters.
Reckless Daughter by David Yaffe
Call Number: Yaffe
Joni Mitchell may be the most influential female recording artist and composer of the late twentieth century. In Reckless Daughter, the music critic David Yaffe tells the remarkable, heart-wrenching story of how the blond girl with the guitar became a superstar of folk music in the 1960s, a key figure in the Laurel Canyon music scene of the 1970s, and the songwriter who spoke resonantly to, and for, audiences across the country. In this intimate biography, drawing on dozens of unprecedented in-person interviews with Mitchell, her childhood friends, and a cast of famous characters, Yaffe reveals the backstory behind the famous songs―from Mitchell’s youth in Canada, her bout with polio at age nine, and her early marriage and the child she gave up for adoption, through the love affairs that inspired masterpieces, and up to the present―and shows us why Mitchell has so enthralled her listeners, her lovers, and her friends. Reckless Daughter is the story of an artist and an era that have left an indelible mark on American music.
The Sum of Small Things - A Theory of the Aspirational Class by Elizabeth Currid-Halkett
Call Number: Currid-Halkett
In today's world, the leisure class has been replaced by a new elite. Highly educated and defined by cultural capital rather than income bracket, these individuals earnestly buy organic, carry NPR tote bags, and breast-feed their babies. They care about discreet, inconspicuous consumption--like eating free-range chicken and heirloom tomatoes, wearing organic cotton shirts and TOMS shoes, and listening to the Serial podcast. They use their purchasing power to hire nannies and housekeepers, to cultivate their children's growth, and to practice yoga and Pilates. In The Sum of Small Things, Elizabeth Currid-Halkett dubs this segment of society "the aspirational class" and discusses how, through deft decisions about education, health, parenting, and retirement, the aspirational class reproduces wealth and upward mobility, deepening the ever-wider class divide.
Call Number: Tallent
Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father. Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. What follows is a harrowing story of bravery and redemption. With Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, the reader watches, heart in throat, as this teenage girl struggles to become her own hero—and in the process, becomes ours as well.
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News The Final Score 4th of March 2018 - Dave Gray
The Final Score 4th of March 2018 – Dave Gray
Welcome to a late Final Score. Apologies everyone for the late report. But heck life got in the road and my muddled brain… nuf about that. Sunday was a great day of gaming at the club.
First a correction! Yes blame me… it would appear that I’ve been incorrectly referring to Infinity as “Infinity Wars”… bad monkey! It is indeed just “Infinity”. What would I know… I’m a Euro gamer. This game has army men minis, made of metal and stuff. So consider that fixed.
Speaking of which there were three tables running on Sunday, however numbers were down a wee bit. But Ben was reportedly grumpy and the quieter day probably suited his mood. He was good spirited all the same and was coaching players, in an ungrumpy way. Players continue to amass army men in all shapes and sizes. There is also something happening with the lore in which the Japanese are defecting or something… equates to “it’s a good thing”. I believed them.
Meanwhile the Star Wars RPG game continued. All seemed to be enjoying the relaxed DM style with Joshua and having fun on their adventure. Until that is Dan was apparently thrown down a garbage shoot and went and played Armada… what else does one do?
On the quieter side we settled down to a game of a classic Euro in Trajan. The key mechanic in this game is a mancala to determine actions. It’s tricky as everything is linked and gets you points, but you can’t do everything and it’s that challenge of determining the most optimal choice. It has a Roman theme but heck it’s a Euro! But the theme is certainly there and I enjoy the game. Phil got a stellar score with some sneaky grabs for some end game scoring tokens that served him well.
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Usually the people who assist us are family, friends and supporters.
Self-advocacy is the ability to speak up for yourself and the things that are important to you
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There are some people who have no one in their lives to ensure their voice is heard. For these people there will be the option of accessing a trained and paid advocate whose role is to ensure the person’s will and preference is being enacted. If you think you or someone you know needs this type of support, please talk to a Kaitūhono/Connector or contact us at:
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The Trust provides lifelong advocacy for enrolled members with learning disabilities after the death of their parents
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(ADL) provides free legal services to disabled people associated with their disability legal issues. ADL is the only specialist disability law community law centre in Aotearoa New Zealand
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The purpose of the Health and Disability Commissioner is to promote and protect the rights of consumers as set out in the Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights. This includes resolving complaints in a fair, timely, and effective way. You have the right to complain if you are not happy with a health or disability service you have received.
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People First New Zealand Inc. Ngā Tāngata Tuatahi
People First New Zealand Inc. Ngā Tāngata Tuatahi is a national Disabled Persons Organisation that is led and directed by people with learning (intellectual) disability.
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Home / College / UMD Ready for NCHC Challenge
UMD Ready for NCHC Challenge
By Amy Gist
If Monday night’s 7-1 exhibition win against Lakehead University is any indication, the UMD Men’s hockey club is poised for success as the puck drops this week.
<>Featured Image:<> This is a scene UMD’s Joe Basaraba and Austin Farley hope to repeat often in the NCHC’s inaugural season. (Photo: Minnesota-Duluth Athletics)
If Monday night’s 7-1 exhibition win against Lakehead University is any indication, the UMD Men’s hockey club is poised for success as the puck drops this week. Check out our season preview, predictions and notes here!Friday evening the University of Minnesota Duluth Men’s hockey team will open up the season in front of the home crowd, hosting Michigan Tech in a set of weekend games at Amsoil Arena. Predicted to place sixth out of eight teams by the time the season comes to a close in 2014 by a National Collegiate Hockey Conference Poll in September, the Bulldogs are ready to come out strong and prove the voters wrong.
“We were talking about it and they could’ve pulled names out of a hat for that poll and it was something they had to put together,” shrugged Adam Krause, current captain of the Bulldogs in reference to the NCHC preseason poll, following a 7-1 exhibition win over Lakehead University on Monday night. If there is one thing the Captain isn’t worried about it’s what the poll had to say about his squad. “There are a lot of good teams [in the NCHC],” says Krause, “If we can keep the scoring going and stay disciplined in the different zones we’re going to be fine in this league. We’re going to have some tough games obviously, but we’ll be good.”
When analyzing the 2013-14 Bulldogs, the two things most observers will agree on is that UMD’s power-play depth could be lethal but concerns exist about the adequacy of its blue line support. Last season 41 of the club’s 99 goals come via the power play. With the likes of Tony Cameranisi, Austin Farley, Caleb Herbert, Joe Basaraba and newcomer Dominic Toninato up front along with Andy Welinski and freshmen Dan Molenaar and Carson Soucy on the back end, Minnesota-Duluth’s two power-play units could be interchangeable.
Granted, the Bulldogs are going to have to better at even strength but the fact that they scored seven five-on-five goals against Lakehead is encouraging. Whether that was a preview of things to come or simply the result of playing an overmatched Lakehead team has yet to be determined.
With a relatively young and untested defensive corps it’s anybody’s guess as to whether or not the blue liners can provide enough coverage. The losses of Wade Bergman and Drew Olson to graduation left holes to fill on their own but Chris Casto’s departure to the professional ranks added salt to the wound. However, Welinski, highly regarded across the country as a player to watch, returns after an 18-point (4-14—18) rookie year and dished out three assists against Lakehead. Soucy (goal) and Molenaar (assist) showed promise in the exhibition as well, not to mention fellow freshman, Willie Raskob, who drew the praise of Bulldogs’ coach Scott Sandelin after Monday’s win.
“I thought Raskob on the blue line did a good job for a young kid coming out of basically high school,” Sandelin said. “Once he gets used to the pace I think he’s going to make a lot of plays with the puck.”
While there is no question that the level of play will only increase from here on out, players and coaching staff seem confident in the current state of the team, even at such an early stage in the season.
“I think we’ve got some pretty good depth up front. I thought our young defensemen played good too,” says Coach Sandelin. “If our supposed fourth line can score two or three goals every night I’ll be happy because it’s going to take the pressure off all those other guys. I think that was one of the big things last year is that we didn’t have that offensive depth. We were relying on maybe two or three returning guys and hoping that the two freshmen can come in and do something. Now this year they are another year older and Herbert and Basaraba had a good year and you bring in two more freshmen it gives you some balance.”
Whether or not the Bulldogs can finish higher than 6th in the NCHC is completely up to them at this point, regardless of age or experience. Although a relatively young team they boast seven NHL draft picks (Max Tardy – St. Louis Blues, Basaraba – Florida Panthers, Toninato – Toronto Maple Leafs, Herbert – Washington Capitals, Welinski – Anaheim Ducks, and Soucy – Minnesota Wild) shoring up the ranks who are not only ready to prove themselves to the UMD fan base but also to the organizations carefully watching their development.
As far as the season is concerned, Krause says, “It’s going to be awesome, we’re going to be a fun team to watch.”
Minnesota Duluth Bulldogs
2012-13 overall record: 14-19-5
2012-13 WCHA record: 10-13-1
2012-13 Conference Finish: Ninth (WCHA)
2012-13 Postseason Finish:Swept by Wisconsin (3-1, 4-1) in WCHA Playoffs
2013-14 predicted finish: NCHC Poll ~ 6th, Minnesota Hockey Magazine Reporter Amy Gist ~ 4th
Tough Skates to Fill: F Mike Seidel, D Wade Bergman, D Drew Olson, D Chris Casto
Impact Returnees: F Kyle Osterberg, F Justin Crandall, F Austin Farley, F Tony Cameranesi, F Caleb Herbert, F Joe Basaraba, D Andy Welinski, G Matt McNeely.
Key Additions:C Dominic Toninato, D Willie Raskob, D Dan Molenaar, D Carson Soucy
Why the Bulldogs will exceed expectations: A young defensive corps will rise to the challenge of the NCHC and be able to produce offensively in addition to all four scoring lines creating more or less equal scoring chances.
Why the Bulldogs will fall short of expectations: A breakdown in the defensive zone and loss of scoring power from the projected third and fourth lines could hold the relatively young Bulldogs squad at bay.
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Amy is a freelance hockey writer who often finds herself face to face with some of hockey's biggest names, whether she's expecting to or not! She has been writing for Gongshow Gear Hockey for two amazing seasons and often writes for various other outlets. Amy is a credentialed sports writer with many sports but hockey is where her true passion lives! This season Amy is incredibly proud to be a member of the Minnesota Hockey Magazine staff covering Wild, UMD and various levels of hockey throughout the State of Hockey and beyond! She can be followed on twitter at @AmySnow17!
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At the UGtv Meet
Found myself at MintDigital's user generated TV event last night, and had a thought sparked by Advanced Media Ventures' Shelly Palmer about how government regulation is going to put money in some pockets.
As the ubiquitous Mr. Palmer pointed out, in 2009 the analog broadcast TV signal goes dead in favor of digital, which means 20 million homes lose TV. In the feeding frenzy, I bet (and this is only a guess – follow my thoughts or advice at your peril) we'll see people rushing to buy digital TVs, will see all kinds of local and national TV news stories about the lines at consumer electronics stores, we'll see stock outs, scams, and maybe, in a few smart places, some attention paid to how cable TV companies and the like are playing with rates and what not to take advantage and make money from their core competences. And folks who play it right will, by smart investing, make a better than market average return.
A couple of choice quotes from the event (and thoughts on the event below):
"Just because it's user generated, it's kind of 'who gives a crap.' But making it better television, that's interesting." – Joey Jodar of Heavy Worldwide, as in Heavy.com.
"The trick is to convert value to wealth." -- Palmer. By which he meant you can create value on the Web and prove it by getting lots of eyeballs. But what about turning that into $$$? "The way to do it," he said, is to do something the music and TV industries have been brilliant at: turning fame into wealth.
The current environment is true Darwinism. "It's not survival of the fittest. It's about adaptability to change." – Rob Norman of Group M, a WPP company.
And on the event:
I couldn't help but feeling the room was an indication of another crash coming. Or, more like a shakeout. It was a Union Square basement auditorium with free drinks and hors d'oeuvres and a lot of mingling and no neckties, and no venture capital I could see. A lot of people handing out business cards, and hoping for a job or work or just glad to be at the next social event. A joking lamented thanks to everyone for showing up and a thanks to Bill Sobel of NY:MIEG for sending a lot of folks (including me) over.
And someone talking about "sitting between" large media companies and social networks and using phrases like "cross-platform". And one person I saw in a room of maybe 200 raised their hand when Shelly asked who has an Apple TV. That was all very 1990s.
Did no one else notice the irony of a logo that, ugh, said UGtv?
kathryn Jones said...
I did notice the ug! And people can tell me I'm wrong again and again and again... but I stand by my belief that user generated content will truly elicit "uggs" come a year or so if content creators don't demand a higher level or output from themselves. Video on the net is a fantastic party, for the moment, but even the craziest party becomes tiresome after a few hours, leaving us all longing for a far more meaningful and fulfilling interaction than we can find making small talk by the bar....
Google's Taking Privacy Seriously
Proof That Corporations are Taking it In House
A Cacophony of Storage, Sorting and Tagging
Nation Editor David Corn Pleads for Contributions
Widgets of the World Unite
Career Panel - Recruiters and a Talent Scout Speak...
It's Not About the Medium, Anymore
Editors are Now 'Content Managers'
Ziff Going to Sell
Careers in a Disrupted Media Universe
Moonves: CBS Bought 'Wallstrip' for More than Tale...
Why Can't Our Ads be Like Italy or France?
Nielsen Kiling Pageview? Not Exactly
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PINK SLIME, MRM's, BSE AKA MAD COW DISEASE, AND THE USDA NSLP
PINK SLIME, MRM’s, BSE AKA MAD COW DISEASE, AND THE USDA NSLP
RICK PERRY EATS A PINK SLIME HAMBURGER, AND LIKES IT, IN FACT, RICK PERRY ENDORSES PINK SLIME BURGERS ;
I remember another fool that showed the same ignorance during the mad cow saga in England.
John Gummer force feeding his daughter a mad cow hamburger. later on in years after that, a close friend of theirs died from mad cow disease.
Family friend of John Gummer is killed by CJD aged 23 By ANDREW LEVY
Last updated at 19:16 11 October 2007
Elizabeth Smith: She learned on her 21st birthday that she had vCJD
A family friend of former Tory agriculture minister John Gummer has died from the human form of mad cow disease.
Elizabeth Smith died last week, more than two years after learning on her 21st birthday that she had new variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Her father, retired vicar Roger Smith, is a friend of Mr Gummer, a former parishioner who famously attempted to allay fears about BSE in 1990 when he publicly fed a burger to his four-year-old daughter, Cordelia.
At the time, Mr Gummer said: "I can assure the public there is no cause for concern.
"The Government has taken all the advice it can from the experts. Their conclusion is that beef is perfectly safe."
University student Miss Smith quit her course days after the diagnosis in March 2005 and soon became so ill she needed round-the-clock treatment.
She was 23 when she died at her parents' home. Yesterday, they paid tribute to their "active and intelligent" daughter.
Mr Smith, of St Margaret South Elmham in Suffolk, said: "By the time she came home she had trouble swallowing and then couldn't swallow at all, so for the last two-and-a-half years she was fitted with a gastro-tube.
"After that the disease was remorseless in the way that it killed her off. She was unable to walk for the last two years of her life and couldn't speak or smile.
"Elizabeth had to be cared for 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
It's safe: John Gummer feeds his daughter Cordelia a burger
"She was more helpless for those last two years than when she was born - at least then she could move her arms and cry but by the end she couldn't even do that."
Describing her daughter's 21st birthday, Molly Smith said: "That was the worst time because we all had to cope with the fact that she was going to die.
"Elizabeth was clever, bright and intelligent. If she had been able to do her final exams she would have got a very good degree.
"She wanted to do primary school teaching and had a place on a postgraduate training course."
Miss Smith, who had a brother, Andrew, 39, passed four A-levels before going to Birmingham University in 2002 to read geography.
She first became ill in August 2004 but it was not until seven months later that she was told by doctors she had vCJD.
Mr Smith said yesterday that he was "99.9 per cent certain" that his daughter's illness had been caused by contaminated beef.
But he refused to blame Mr Gummer, saying the episode with the burger had not changed the way he viewed meat.
He added: "One of the few comforting thoughts is that almost certainly Elizabeth's degree of awareness in the last two years of her life was minimal. Some doctors would say that vCJD is far more painful to watch than suffer."
Miss Smith was the 162nd person to die from new variant CJD, which was first identified in 1996 after being linked to an outbreak of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy) in cattle. vCJD slowly destroys the brain, giving it a sponge-like appearance.
It is thought to be caused by the build up in the brain of an abnormal form of the naturally occurring prion protein.
Most cases have developed as a result of eating infected meat, although five victims have been vegetarians. The disease has also been transmitted by blood transfusion and infected surgical equipment.
Mr Gummer was not available for comment yesterday.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-487074/Family-friend-John-Gummer-killed-CJD-aged-23.html
Ammonia-treated beef DOES NOT KILL MAD COW DISEASE !!!
Experts say it is likely that bits of spinal cord - the part of a cow most likely to be contaminated with BSE - could be found in mechanically recovered meat.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/1482140.stm
Horror of the BSE school dinner risk
by SEAN POULTER, Daily Mail
Large quantities of 'BSE risk' meat sludge found its way into school lunches for up to 15 years.
Some 75,000 tons of mechanically recovered meat (MRM), blasted from the bones of cattle with water jets, was used in economy foods, a study reveals.
A further 150,000 tons of meat from heads, including cheeks and lips, which was later banned as a risk, was used, often in schools and hospitals.
The scandal was exposed yesterday in a report by the Food Standards Agency, which shed new light on the risk to human health of BSE.
The findings horrified families who lost loved ones to CJD, the human form of BSE. Lester Firkins, chairman of the Human BSE Foundation, a charity set up by victims' families, said: 'The fact that this stuff was getting into school dinners is repulsive.
'The average age of those people who have died is 27. We are left wondering whether school dinners was the common factor.
'No sensible parent would knowingly have allowed their children to eat that sort of food.
'You assume that what children are given at school is better than you'd get at a fast-food restaurant. That wasn't the case.
'The schools and other authorities should have made checks about the quality of the food they were using. Even today we do not know exactly what ends up on our plates.'
Mr Firkins lost his son Ellis, a 25-year-old teacher, to CJD last year.
The FSA says that MRM was being fed to humans at the rate of 5,000 tons a year from 1980 to 1995, which covered the years that BSE was rife in cattle.
Head meat was routinely included in economy foods at the rate of 10,000 tons a year for the same period.
Assuming it was used at a rate of around 15 per cent of the contents, the MRM alone could equate to 4.5billion burgers over 15 years.
The study shows that in the late 1980s, every part of the carcass was used in food production.
Frozen brains were exported to France while 'rectums were cleaned and salted and exported to Germany for sausages'.
The FSA suggests that 40 per cent of MRM went into cheap mince, another 40 per cent into economy burgers and the rest to other uses such as pies, sausages and patés.
Some of the MRM, although it is likely to have been a small quantity, may even have been included in processed baby food and beef stock cubes.
The mince and burgers would have been eaten in schools or available as economy lines from supermarkets. Many of the burgers were sold at fairs and football matches.
As much as 50 per cent of cheap mince was made up from head meat, which was used heavily in schools and hospitals.
The report points out: 'Institutional buyers, such as schools and hospitals... put constant pressure on suppliers to reduce prices.
'There were only so many ways this could be achieved - one of which was using bovine MRM. In addition, head meat would have been a standard ingredient.'
The report comes in spite of what appeared to be a concerted attempt by the processing industry to keep details secret.
A year ago, the Government's BSE expert committee, SEAC, complained that manufacturers had stalled and blocked all attempts to get information on the use of MRM.
Eventually it asked the FSA to launch an inquiry, which involved face-to-face meetings with industry executives, many now retired.
While all the MRM and head meat carried a theoretical risk, only about 10 per cent would have come from older animals, those most likely to carry infection.
SEAC chairman, Professor Peter Smith, said last night: 'This study goes a long way to confirm what we suspected. A lot of individuals will have been exposed to this meat.'
The findings will be studied by scientists at the CJD suveillance unit in Edinburgh and the use of beef 'head meat' will be further explored. It is banned in Britain and Portugal but is still used in other EU states.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-142241/Horror-BSE-school-dinner-risk.html#ixzz1p6KDEO7Y
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/03/beyond-pink-slime/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=120314
J Cancer Epidemiol Prev. 2002;7(2):59-70.
UK dietary exposure to BSE in beef mechanically recovered meat: by birth cohort and gender.
Cooper JD, Bird SM.
MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, UK.
Meat recovered mechanically from bovine vertebral columns for use in burgers, sausages and other meat products may have been contaminated with bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) from recovered spinal cord and dorsal root ganglia (DRG). We quantified UK exposure to BSE in beef mechanically recovered meat (MRM) by birth cohort (born pre-1940, in 1940-1969, post-1969), gender and calendar period (1980-1989, 1990-1996) because information on any two of BSE exposure intensity, vCJD incubation period and the new cases of vCJD tells us about the third.
Synthesis of evidence on BSE epidemiology, MRM production, infectivity in spinal cord and DRG, and UK dietary consumption.
Production of beef MRM peaked at 5000 tonnes in 1987, was nil in 1989 but recovered to 2000 tonnes in 1995 when it ceased altogether; reportedly 90% was used in burgers. Mean weight of spinal cord recovered per carcass was 3.3 g (95% credible interval 0.24-12.02 g) before the specified bovine offal (SBO) legislation and 1.5 g (0.02-8.30 g) after the legislation; whereas recovered weight of DRG (as infectious as spinal cord) was 27 g. Recovery of spinal cord from 1-year pre-clinical bovines peaked in 1988 at 238 g and of DRG in 1993 at 4250 g (medians). Median infectivity (5th and 95th percentiles) consumed in beef MRM was 33 250 (30 550-35 950), 65 600 (60 250-71 050) and 14 350 (13 150-15 600) bovine oral (Bo) ID50 units for the post-1969, 1940-1969 and pre-1940 birth cohorts in 1980-1989; and 44 250 (41 300-47 350), 39 600 (37 100-42,400) and 8750 (8100-9350) Bo ID50 units in 1990-1996. Males consumed almost 58% of infectivity in both periods. If the worst-case level of infectivity pertained, exposure, instead of halving in 1990-1996, would be sustained at around its 1980-1989 level for the two older birth cohorts and would have doubled in 1990-1996 for the post-1969 birth cohort.
SBO legislation in 1989 contributed only a 6% reduction in the infectivity in beef MRM. Salient sensitivity issues are highlighted.
Para 72 and following sections
Mechanically recovered meat: Should you not suggest more urgent action over mechanically recovered meat, given that this seems to be the route of infection for vCJD?
It is all very well to have the 1995 controls in the UK, but are they 100 per cent effective? How can a consumer know if a product contains MRM from another country, where there may be either no, or very ineffective, controls?
Having read your report and the BSE Inquiry report, I suggest there is doubt about whether MRM can be safely eaten. It is very hard to be sure exactly what is in MRM and whether it is safe. Given this, your advice should surely be to advise consumers not to eat products which may contain MRM but to stick to cuts of meat which are clearly identifiable. It is often children who eat these MRM products.
I don`t know if there is the possibility to reply to these questions. I tried speaking to someone in your press office but he just quoted the report at me, which I can read very well for myself.ct contains MRM from another country, where there may be either no, or very ineffective, controls?
I don`t know if there is the possibility to reply to these questions. I tried speaking to someone in your press office but he just quoted the report at me, which I can read very well for myself.
http://www.food.gov.uk/archived/bsearchive/aboutbsetse/aboutsbereviewarchive/correspondence/say39
PLEASE NOTE IN REFERENCE TO THE LATEST LONG TERM USDA DOWNER COW SCHOOL LUNCH PROGRAM CASE STUDY FOR VCJD IN CHILDREN UK AND USA
Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (Variant) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Prion Diseases) Description Since 1996, strong evidence has accumulated for a causal relationship between ongoing outbreaks, primarily in Europe, of a disease in cattle called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE, or “mad cow diseaseâ€) and a disease in humans called variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Both disorders, which are caused by an unconventional transmissible agent, are invariably fatal brain diseases with incubation periods typically measured in years (1). Transmission of the BSE agent to humans, leading to vCJD, is believed to occur via ingestion of cattle products contaminated with the BSE agent; the specific foods associated with this transmission are unknown. However, a recently published case-control study involving 132 vCJD cases in the United Kingdom (UK) showed evidence of an increased risk for vCJD associated with the frequency of consuming beef products likely to contain mechanically recovered meat and head meat (such as burgers, meat pies, and sausages) (2). Bioassays and molecular tests have enabled identification of what World Health Organization consultants have classified as “high-infectivity†and “lower infectivity†tissues of cattle with BSE (3). The high-infectivity tissues include the brain, spinal cord, retina, optic nerve, and dorsal root and trigeminal ganglia, suggesting that these tissues can pose a relatively high risk of transmission. The lower infectivity tissues include peripheral nerves (e.g., sciatic and facial nerves), tonsils, nictitating membrane (third eye lid), distal ileum, bone marrow, and possibly thigh muscle. The latter tissue from one cow with BSE transmitted disease to highly BSE-sensitive transgenic mice at a rate indicative of trace levels of infectivity.
http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/yellowBoo...antPrions.aspx
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Chapter 4 Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (Variant) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Prion Diseases) Not Included in the 2010 Edition
The section "Chapter 4 Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (Variant) and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (Prion Diseases)" in CDC Health Information for International Travel 2008 was not included in the 2010 edition. For information about global disease occurrence, please see
http://wwwn.cdc.gov/travel/content/diseases.aspx#BSE.
BSE, CJD, and Baby foods (the great debate 1999 to 2005)
http://bseinquiry.blogspot.com/2008/05/bse-cjd-and-baby-foods-great-debate.html
Subject: SV: SV: Changes to UK Rendering System?
From: Karin.Irgens@DYREHELSETILSYNET.NO
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Hello John
Although MRM was probably one of the most important sources of contamination of human foods until it was banned in 1995 in the UK, the MRM problem has nothing to do with rendering and MBM for animal feed.
Besides, I doubt that it would be very practical to _extract_ brain and spinal cord after "crushing and shattering" of heads and spines !
According to the BSE Inquiry's final report, MRM was produced by :
..." high pressure being applied to bones to separate them from anything that was still adhering. The resultant slurry was used in a range of meat products for human consumption, including lower grade sausages, burgers an pies. The major source of MRM was the spinal column"...
The BSE Inquiry certainly drew attention to this process. I think they even wrote a "draft factual account" on MRM last year.
Best regards, Karin
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Emne: Re: SV: Changes to UK Rendering System?
TRUE But The UK invented MRM in the mid-nineteen
seventies, that is the industrial processing of whole
heads of cows and sheep plus skeletal waste on a huge
scale. The process was made viable by the collection
of hundreds of heads etc. That were then crushed,
shattered and centrifuged to extract the brains,
tongues, eyes, and spinal chord from the bone matrix.
A material was made from this slurry that could be
added to pies, sausages, burgers and baby filler as
cheap filler. The balance was used as a protein
supplement in animal feed.
Could you have a better way of spreading infectivity?
Did the BSE Inquiry describe or draw attention to
this process? I understand there was a HMSO
publication on MRM in 1980 but as yet I have not been
able to obtain a copy.
Best regards john
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Subject: Re: SV: SV: Changes to UK Rendering System?
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 11:39:50 -0800 Content-Type: text/plain Parts/Attachments: text/plain (253 lines)
Karin and John,
forgot to add this;
57. On 22 June 1990, the APS/Parliamentary Secretary (Mr Curry) sent a minute to Dr Denner, copied to Mr Capstick, Mr Meldrum, Mr Crawford, Mr Baker, Mr Griffiths, Mr Lawrence and others, in which he explained that at a demonstration of the MRM process which Mr Curry had seen at a slaughterhouse, traces of spinal tissue had been found in the product and as a result the Parliamentary Secretary was ‘very unhappy about MRM’.[53] A suggestion had been made to Mr Curry that an efficient method of removing the spinal tissue would be to apply a suction pump to the spinal canal after the head had been removed and before the carcase was split. The Parliamentary Secretary asked for a short note on the feasibility of such a method.
58. On 25 June 1990, Mr Bremner sent a minute to Mr Meldrum, copied to Dr Denner, Mr Crawford, Mr D Taylor and Mr Griffiths. Mr Bremner reported that he was ‘very surprised’ that the Parliamentary Secretary had seen traces of spinal tissue in MRM and that ‘it is so unlikely that I suspect he was misinformed’.[54] Mr Bremner explained that what the slaughterhouse operators had said was that ‘they were not happy to sell MRM because of the risk of contamination of the vertebrae with the spinal cord. Unfortunately not all the spinal cord was being removed by the meat inspectors although only small pieces were left’. He went on to say that although the idea of using a suction pump was being pushed by the operators, he found it difficult to imagine how it would work, and that ‘my own view was that if the meat inspectors had done their job correctly, there would have been little risk and if the vertebrae were excluded from MRM, there should be no further risk’.
59. In a manuscript minute dated 28 June 1990, Mr Meldrum asked Mr Bremner to find out from his trade contacts whether any suction pumps were actually available on the market.[55]
60. Dr Denner wrote to APS/Mr Curry on 26 June 1990 regarding the visit to Canvin International Ltd. His minute was copied to PS/Minister, Private Offices, Mr Capstick, Mr Packer, Mr Meldrum, Mrs Attridge, Mr Wentworth, Mr Crawford, Mr Baker, Mr Griffiths and Mr Lawrence amongst others.[56] Dr Denner explained that:- ‘There are two separate issues arising from the Parliamentary Secretary’s (Mr Curry) visit to the abattoir. The first is the efficacy of removing spinal cord from the carcase, which is a mandatory requirement of the Bovine Offals (Prohibition) Regulations 1989. This issue is related to other problems of abattoir practice such as the removal of the head meat and brains from cattle heads, and the prevention of cross contamination from spinal fluids and tissue during carcase dressing. The second problem is the safety of MRM prepared from spinal column bones. Since legislation already exists for the removal of spinal cord, any further consideration must stem from the risk posed by using spinal column with the spinal cord removed in MRM piston type machines. Any policy decision on BSE must be based on the best technical evidence available to be consistent with previous MAFF policy. The CVO is already organising a study to improve abattoir practice of splitting carcases. The use of a suction tube for removal of spinal cord after splitting the carcase is an effective technique already in use in some plants producing MRM from lamb spinal column bones. This may be one of several possible techniques that can be studied. I understand the Tyrrell Committee will discuss the use of spinal column in the preparation of MRM at their next meeting on 2 July. Subject to their recommendation, Food Science Division would be prepared to commission a study into verifying whether central nervous system fluid or tissue is extracted into MRM during the preparation in piston type machines when spinal column with the cord removed is used. The results of such a study would give Ministers the basis for any further action.’
61. The APS/Mr Curry replied to Dr Denner on 2 July 1990[57]. She explained that:- ‘The MRM [at Canvins] was produced using a machine which used a piston under hydraulic pressure. The traces of spinal tissue were identified by eye by Canvin’s vet. However, Mr Bremner - who accompanied the Parliamentary Secretary on this visit - said that it was possible that the material in question could have been cartilage tissue. Mr Bremner felt that the machine was not working properly as the MRM it produced was in larger pieces than normal.’
MRMs
http://www.bse.org.uk/dfa/dfa14.htm
http://bseinquiry.blogspot.com/2008/05/bse-inquiry-draft-factual-account-dfa.html
MECHANICALLY RECOVERED MEAT MRM
http://collections.europarchive.org/tna/20090505194948/http://bseinquiry.gov.uk/files/yb/1996/01/22008001.pdf
Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), 1st emerged in Britain in 1986 as a result of "cannibalism," when beef offal was fed to cattle, which are natural grass-eaters. The proteins, called prions, that cause BSE were found in large quantities in the brains, spinal cords and spleens of cattle (although they were also subsequently discovered in meat tissue). When animal carcasses were ground down to form feed stuff for other cattle, prions were passed on. They then colonised the brains of the cattle which ate them, and were passed to humans via cheap, mechanically recovered meat -- such as processed sinews and offal that were used at the time in school dinners and baby food. In humans, the prions triggered the development of a new form of fatal human dementia called new variant CJD, which was 1st identified in 1996.
Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), 1st emerged in Britain in 1986 as a result of "cannibalism," when beef offal was fed to cattle, which are natural grass-eaters. The proteins,called prions, that cause BSE were found in large quantities in the brains, spinal cords and spleens of cattle (although they were alsosubsequently discovered in meat tissue). When animal carcasses were ground down to form feed stuff for other cattle, prions were passed on. They then colonised the brains of the cattle which ate them, and were passed to humans via cheap, mechanically recovered meat – such as processed sinews and offal that were used at the time in school dinners and baby food. In humans, the prions triggered the development of a new form of fatal human dementia called new variant CJD, which was 1st identified in 1996.
http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=2400:1001:6055737985757108::NO::F2400_P1001_BACK_PAGE,F2400_P1001_PUB_MAIL_ID:1011,91026
People who ate such products are thought to be at greater risk of developing the fatal brain disease vCJD, the human form of BSE. This is because mechanically recovered meat (MRM) from cows is scraped from the bone and is likely to include tissue from the nervous system.
http://downercattle.blogspot.com/2010/05/mad-cow-slurry-fed-to-school-children.html
Subject: Re: American Beef Supply at Risk
Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 17:11:59 –0500
PLUS we must not let them forget about the real possibility of BSE going
back to sheep, even if you don't believe that some or all phenotypes of
scrapie do not transmit to man (without ever testing), even though they
transmit to primates.
In the UK, they had an SRM ban (not very well enforced) since 1989, and
MRM ban since 1995. In the USA they still have no adequate ban in 2003,
no adequate surveillance system in 2003.
WHEN will there be BSE/CJD-Inquiries in Canada and USA?
WHEN will they make CJD reportable Nationally and issue
a CJD Questionnaire to each victims family?
WHEN will they start rapid TSE/BSE testing cattle in
numbers suffient to find them (1 Million annually for 5 years)?
WHEN will the FDA reply to my FOIA request of _all_
ruminant-to-ruminant feed ban violations as asked?
snip...end...tss
From - Tue Jan 09 13:46:44 2001
From: "Sandy Blakeslee" sblakeslee@mindspring.com
To: flounder@wt.net
Subject: fda conference Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2001 12:27:06 –0700
Terry -- I understand you taped and listened in on the FDA conference
today. I missed it. I'm writing an update on BSE in the US for my paper
(NYTimes) and would like to know what was discussed today. Might I call
you? Where can I reach you? Sandy
Sandra Blakeslee
blakes@nytimes.com
Subject: Re: BSE 50 STATE CONFERENCE CALL thread from BSE List and FDA Posting of cut version...
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 22:02:47 -0700 From:
"Sandy Blakeslee" sblakeslee@mindspring.com
To: "Terry S. Singeltary Sr." References: 1
Hi terry -- thanks for all your help. I know it made a difference with the FDA getting out that release.
To:sblakeslee@mindspring.com
Subject: BSE 50 STATE CONFERENCE CALL thread from BSE List and FDA Posting of cut version...
snip...see ;
WHAT MAD COW FEED BAN ??? THAT MAD COW TRIPLE FIRE WALL WAS NOTHING BUT INK ON PAPER $$$
Sunday, February 5, 2012 February 2012
Update on Feed Enforcement Activities to Limit the Spread of BSE
New York Firm Recalls Beef Carcass That Contains Prohibited Materials Recall Release CLASS II RECALL FSIS-RC-003-2010 HEALTH RISK: LOW
Congressional and Public Affairs (202) 720-9113 Atiya Khan
WASHINGTON, January 15, 2010 - Jerry Hayes Meats Inc., a Newark Valley, N.Y., establishment is recalling approximately 490 pounds of a beef carcass that may not have had the spinal column removed, which is not compliant with regulations that require the removal of spinal cord and vertebral column from cattle over 30 months of age, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.
Spinal cord and vertebral column are considered a specified risk material (SRM) and must be removed from cattle over 30 months of age in accordance with FSIS regulations. SRMs are tissues that are known to contain the infective agent in cattle infected with Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), as well as materials that are closely associated with these potentially infective tissues. Therefore, FSIS prohibits SRMs from use as human food to minimize potential human exposure to the BSE agent.
The products subject to recall include: 1- "BEEF CARCASS," which bears the establishment number "EST. 04488 M" inside the USDA mark of inspection.
The product was packed on January 7, 2010, and sold to a single customer in New York.
The problem was discovered through routine FSIS inspection activities. FSIS has received no reports of illnesses associated with consumption of this product.
FSIS routinely conducts recall effectiveness checks to verify recalling firms notify their customers (including restaurants) of the recall and that steps are taken to make certain that the product is no longer available to consumers.
Media and consumers with questions about the recall should contact the company's owner, Jerry Hayes at (607) 642-9598.
Consumers with food safety questions can "Ask Karen," the FSIS virtual representative available 24 hours a day at AskKaren.gov. The toll-free USDA Meat and Poultry Hotline 1-888-MPHotline (1-888-674-6854) is available in English and Spanish and can be reached from l0 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Eastern Time) Monday through Friday. Recorded food safety messages are available 24 hours a day. #
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/News_&_Events/Recall_003_2010_Release/index.asp
ADVANCED MEAT RECOVERY USING BEEF VERTEBRAL RAW MATERIALS
I. PURPOSE
Based on the first several months of regulatory (monitoring and follow-up surveillance) sampling, FSIS has determined that some establishments are not adequately addressing the presence of spinal cord tissue in boneless comminuted beef. FSIS is reissuing this directive to define more fully than it did in the initial directive the range of follow-up actions available to the Agency when product from an advanced meat recovery (AMR) system contains spinal cord tissue. This directive continues to provide inspection program personnel with instructions for sampling when a request is received from the Office of Public Health and Science (OPHS). NOTE: This directive only addresses the presence of spinal cord tissue. Other issues, such as calcium levels and the matters addressed in FSIS Directive 7160.1 and 7160.2, remain unchanged.
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/rdad/FSISDirectives/7160.3Rev1.pdf
January 20, 2006: 11:32 AM EST
TOKYO (CNN) - Japan halted the import of U.S. beef Friday after animal spines were found in three boxes of frozen beef at Tokyo International Airport and asked U.S. officials to explain what happened.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/01/20/news/international/japan_beef/index.htm
Japan finds banned spine in U.S. beef: report April 23, 2008|MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Japan's farm ministry said Wednesday that a spinal cord had been found in a box of beef shipped from United States, in breach of the two countries' bilateral beef trade accord, the Associated Press reported.
http://articles.marketwatch.com/2008-04-23/news/30795580_1_risk-of-mad-cow-beef-shipments-spinal-cord
Japan suspends U.S. plant's beef amid mad cow fears NationalOct. 10, 2009 - 03:41PM JST( 47 )
TOKYO —
Japan has suspended beef shipments from an American meatpacking plant after finding cattle parts banned under an agreement to prevent the spread of mad cow disease, the agriculture ministry said Saturday.
Japanese quarantine inspectors found bovine spinal columns in one of 732 boxes sent by Tyson Fresh Meats, Inc, which arrived in Japan last month, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries said in a statement. The box contained 35 pounds (16 kilograms) of chilled short loin with spinal bones, which were not released commercially, said ministry official Goshi Nakata.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/risk-material-for-bse-found-in-beef-imported-from-us
Missouri Firm Recalls Cattle Heads That Contain Prohibited Materials SRMs
http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2008/07/missouri-firm-recalls-cattle-heads-that.html
Wisconsin Firm Recalls Beef Tongues That Contain Prohibited Materials SRM WASHINGTON, October 17, 2009
http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2009/10/wisconsin-firm-recalls-beef-tongues.html
Nebraska Firm Recalls Beef Tongues That Contain Prohibited Materials SRM WASHINGTON, Oct 15, 2009
http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2009/10/nebraska-firm-recalls-beef-tongues-that.html
Texas Firm Recalls Cattle Heads That Contain Prohibited Materials
http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2008/06/texas-firm-recalls-cattle-heads-that.html
Texas Firm Recalls Cattle Heads That Contain Prohibited Materials SRMs 941,271 pounds with tonsils not completely removed
SRM MAD COW RECALL 406 THOUSAND POUNDS CATTLE HEADS WITH TONSILS KANSAS
http://cjdmadcowbaseoct2007.blogspot.com/2008/04/srm-mad-cow-recall-406-thousand-pounds.html
Consumption of beef tongue: Human BSE risk associated with exposure to lymphoid tissue in bovine tongue in consideration of new research findings
http://cjdmadcowbaseoct2007.blogspot.com/2008/04/consumption-of-beef-tongue-human-bse.html
BSE infectivity in the absence of detectable PrPSc accumulation in the tongue and nasal mucosa of terminally diseased cattle
http://bseusa.blogspot.com/2010/10/bse-infectivity-in-absence-of.html
SPECIFIED RISK MATERIALS SRMs
http://madcowspontaneousnot.blogspot.com/2008/02/specified-risk-materials-srm.html
October 2009 O.11.3 Infectivity in skeletal muscle of BASE-infected cattle
Silvia Suardi1, Chiara Vimercati1, Fabio Moda1, Ruggerone Margherita1, Ilaria Campagnani1, Guerino Lombardi2, Daniela Gelmetti2, Martin H. Groschup3, Anne Buschmann3, Cristina Casalone4, Maria Caramelli4, Salvatore Monaco5, Gianluigi Zanusso5, Fabrizio Tagliavini1 1Carlo Besta" Neurological Institute,Italy; 2IZS Brescia, Italy; 33FLI Insel Riems, D, Germany; 4CEA-IZS Torino, Italy; 5University of Verona, Italy
Background: BASE is an atypical form of bovine spongiform encephalopathy caused by a prion strain distinct from that of BSE. Upon experimental transmission to cattle, BASE induces a previously unrecognized disease phenotype marked by mental dullness and progressive atrophy of hind limb musculature. Whether affected muscles contain infectivity is unknown. This is a critical issue since the BASE strain is readily transmissible to a variety of hosts including primates, suggesting that humans may be susceptible.
Objectives: To investigate the distribution of infectivity in peripheral tissues of cattle experimentally infected with BASE. Methods: Groups of Tg mice expressing bovine PrP (Tgbov XV, n= 7-15/group) were inoculated both i.c. and i.p. with 10% homogenates of a variety of tissues including brain, spleen, cervical lymph node, kidney and skeletal muscle (m. longissimus dorsi) from cattle intracerebrally infected with BASE. No PrPres was detectable in the peripheral tissues used for inoculation either by immunohistochemistry or Western blot.
Results: Mice inoculated with BASE-brain homogenates showed clinical signs of disease with incubation and survival times of 175±15 and 207±12 days. Five out of seven mice challenged with skeletal muscle developed a similar neurological disorder, with incubation and survival times of 380±11 and 410±12 days. At present (700 days after inoculation) mice challenged with the other peripheral tissues are still healthy. The neuropathological phenotype and PrPres type of the affected mice inoculated either with brain or muscle were indistinguishable and matched those of Tgbov XV mice infected with natural BASE.
Discussion: Our data indicate that the skeletal muscle of cattle experimentally infected with BASE contains significant amount of infectivity, at variance with BSE-affected cattle, raising the issue of intraspecies transmission and the potential risk for humans. Experiments are in progress to assess the presence of infectivity in skeletal muscles of natural BASE.
http://www.prion2009.com/sites/default/files/Prion2009_Book_of_Abstracts.pdf
Case-control study of cases of bovine spongiform encephalopathy born after July 31, 1996 (BARB cases) in Great Britain Veterinary Record doi:10.1136/vr.100097
http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2012/03/case-control-study-of-cases-of-bovine.html
The epidemiology of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in the Republic of Ireland before and after the reinforced feed ban
http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/2012/03/epidemiology-of-bovine-spongiform.html
http://madcowfeed.blogspot.com/
http://madcowspontaneousnot.blogspot.com/
Harvard Risk Assessment of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Update, October 31, 2005 INTRODUCTION The United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) held a public meeting on July 25, 2006 in Washington, D.C. to present findings from the Harvard Risk Assessment of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Update, October 31, 2005 (report and model located on the FSIS website:
Owens, Julie From: Terry S. Singeltary Sr. [mailto:flounder9%40verizon.net]
Subject: [Docket No. FSIS-2006-0011] FSIS Harvard Risk Assessment of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) Page 1 of 98
MAD COW ATYPICAL CJD PRION TSE CASES WITH CLASSIFICATIONS PENDING ON THE RISE IN NORTH AMERICA
http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2011/03/mad-cow-atypical-cjd-prion-tse-cases.html
Experimental H-type and L-type bovine spongiform encephalopathy in cattle: observation of two clinical syndromes and diagnostic challenges
http://bse-atypical.blogspot.com/2012/03/experimental-h-type-and-l-type-bovine.html
APHIS Proposes New Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy Import Regulations in Line with International Animal Health Standards Proposal Aims to Ensure Health of the U.S. Beef Herd, Assist in Negotiations
http://transmissiblespongiformencephalopathy.blogspot.com/2012/03/aphis-proposes-new-bovine-spongiform.html
THE BRITISH DISEASE, IS NOW THE GLOBAL DISEASE
WARNING, this is a very disturbing video. over a decade old.
http://idzoomify1.uzh.ch:8080/zoomify/videos/video-009/video-009.html
PLEASE be aware, for 4 years, the USDA fed our children all across the Nation (including TEXAS) dead stock downer cows, the most high risk cattle for BSE aka mad cow disease and other dangerous pathogens.
who will watch our children for CJD for the next 5+ decades ???
WAS your child exposed to mad cow disease via the NSLP ???
layperson
Bacliff, Texas USA 77518
flounder9@verizon.net
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SIMPLE GAME OF CAPTURING OPPONENT PIECES
In the strategic game Sparta, set in 228 B.C., you will relive the fascinating experience of skillful Spartan and Achaean warriors. Will Sparta seize power, or will the Achaeans maintain their stance?
Designer Yannick Holtkamp developed this strategic game at the age of 12. Still at school at age 14 in late 2011, he is enrolled as a science student at the University of Düsseldorf.
The game is played on a 10x10 grid. Each player starts with a row of eight fighters on their side of the board. In the middle rows of the board, there are eight cities - each player owns four of these.
Each turn, a player may move one of their fighters up to two squares in any direction, changing direction between the moves if so desired.
If the fighter ends its turn in one of his own cities, he is promoted to a hero, and may move up to three squares on future turns.
If the fighter ends its turn on an opposing city, the city is conquered; it now belongs to the player that conquered it.
If, after the move, there are pieces trapped in between two opposing pieces, they are captured and removed from the board. Pieces are trapped if they are between pieces of the other side along a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row without a vacant square in between.
最小玩家: 2
玩家上限: 2
年齡與難度: 10
類別1: 抽象戰略類
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評分: 2
新貨出售: 可訂購
試玩存貨: 有存貨
發布年: 2011
A GAME OF CONNECTION
PÜNCT, the fifth released game by design in project GIPF, is a connection game.
The goal is to connect two opposite sides of the board. A players turn consists of either bringing a new piece into play or moving one already on the board.
This game is part of project GIPF.
Tzaar
A GAME OF CAPTURE AND STACKING
TZAAR is a game about making choices. Both players have 30 pieces, divided in three types: 6 Tzaars, 9 Tzarras and 15 Totts. The 3 types of pieces form a trinity: They cannot exist without each other. The aim is either to make the opponent run out of one of the three types of pieces or to put him in a position in which he cannot capture anymore. The tricky question the players will have to ask themselves on each of their turns is: “Shall I make myself stronger or my opponent weaker?” Meaning: Will you capture an opponent’s piece and make him weaker, or will you jump on top of one of your own pieces and make yourself stronger? If you choose to jump on top of your own pieces too often, you will probably leave your opponent with too many pieces on the board. On the other hand, if you capture too often, you may end up with pieces that are not strong enough at the end of the game. What to do? Up to you to decide!
TZAAR is the most recent game in project GIPF, replacing TAMSK which was felt to not quite fit in with the others due to its use of sand timers.
年齡與難度: 8
PREDICTING FIGHTING WITH ATTACK, SPECIAL MOVES, COMBO, DODGE, BLOCK AND THROW
Yomi is a card game that simulates a fighting game. It tests your ability to predict how your opponents will act and your ability to judge the relative value of cards from one situation to the next. Also, it lets you do fun combos and be a panda. There are 10 characters to choose from, each with their own deck, abilities, and style. Each deck also doubles as a regular deck of playing cards with beautiful artwork (the complete game features a whopping 120 different character illustrations).
Yomi is the Japanese word for “reading”, in this case as in reading the mind of your opponent. Yomi: Fighting Card Game is a simple competitive card game that simulates a fight between two characters. Each deck in Yomi represents one character, with 10 decks in the first release.
Champion fighting game tournament player and tournament organizer David Sirlin designed the game to test the skills of Valuation and Yomi. Valuation refers to your ability to judge the relative value of moves (or cards) as they change over the course of the game. Yomi, the games title, refers to your ability to guess which moves your opponent will make. There is more to it than guessing, though: some players have the uncanny ability to “guess” right almost every time, no matter the game.
The core mechanic is a paper-rock-scissors guessing game between attack, throw, and blockdodge (sometimes modified by special ability cards). Attacks and throws usually let you follow up with combo cards from your hand, while blocks let you draw a card. While it first seems just random, you soon discover that the unequal and uncertain payoffs in this guessing game allow you really read what the opponent will do. Yomi captures the kind of mind games that occur during the high level in fighting game tournaments.
類別1: 牌類
YINSH
A GAME OF FLIPPING
The players each start with 5 rings on the board. Every time a ring is moved, it leaves a marker behind. Markers are white on one side and black on the other. When markers are jumped over by a ring they must be flipped, so their color is constantly changing. The players must try to form a row of 5 markers with their own color face up. If a player succeeds in doing so, he removes one of his rings as an indication that he has formed such a row. The first player to remove 3 of his rings wins the game. In other words, each row you make brings you closer to victory-but also makes you weaker, because you have one fewer ring to play with. Very tricky!
Gipf
A GAME OF PUSHING
GIPF is a strategic game for two players based on a classic concept: in turns, players introduce one piece into play until achieving four-in a-row. Players then remove their row and capture any of their opponents pieces which extend that row. This principle of capturing pieces creates each time again completely changed situations on the board. The purpose is to form successive rows of at least 4 pieces, until the opponent has no piece left to bring into play.
GIPF is not only the name of a game, but of a project as well. This project concerns a group of games and extra pieces that will follow step by step. Each game of the project will be playable either separately, or, by means of extra pieces, in combination with GIPF. It concerns a system that makes winning or losing GIPF-related games a strategic factor of the game GIPF itself.
A CHESS-ALIKE GAME WITH A TWIST
Arimaa, pronounced ah-REE-ma is a modern strategy game that simulates a sport similar to Rugby or Football (American style) but without the ball. Instead of getting a ball to the end zone the team tries to help their smallest player reach the end zone. The other team is also trying to do the same thing at the same time. The first team to get their smallest player to the end zone wins the game. As the coach of the team you are the mastermind behind the teams strategy and must guide them to victory.
The game is played on a field divided into an 8x8 grid of 64 squares. The two teams have 16 players each; with one team being gold and the other silver. The players are assigned positions based on their size. Animal names are used for the positions. Each team has 1 elephant, 1 camel, 2 horses, 2 dogs, 2 cats and 8 rabbits; from largest to smallest in size. Any one of the eighth rabbit players needs to reach the end zone to win the game.
There are four muddy spots on the field called traps. They are located at c3, f3, c6 and f6. Players may stand or cross through the traps so long as a teammate is adjacent to the trap. A player that is on a trap and has no teammate adjacent for support will slip and fall into the the mud and has to sit out the rest of the game.
A team that has lost all the rabbit players loses the game (by elimination). A team that cannot make a move at all also loses the game (by immobilization).
Kings Valley
SIMPLE GAME OF MOVING
Kings Valley is a very simple and easy game to play. This is because all the pieces move the same. Any piece can move straight horizontal, vertical or diagonal, but always as far as possible. Pieces always stop their movement either at the sides of the board or before another tile in the same row, column, or diagonal.
The winner is the first player that manages to move his king piece to the central square of the board, which represents the Kings Valley.
The game is played on a 5 by 5 board with the center square representing the Kings Valley. Players start with 5 pieces on opposites sites of the board, with the center pieces being the kings.
GAME OF CAPTURING WITH SELF OR ENEMY PIECES
THE POWER OF PUSHING IN A GROUP
This beautiful and functional board has room for two teams of large marbles. Players take turns pushing the marbles around the board, with the goal of pushing six of the opposing players marbles off the board. The central idea is that a column of marbles has weight given by the number of marbles in line. Someone will need to push with a heavier group of marbles in order to push the column along that axis. However, with six possible directions, its difficult to defend yourself perfectly. Also, its possible to play the game with up to six players when supplemental marble sets are purchased.
CAT AND MOUSE GAME OF DEDUCTION
One of the two players represents Jack the Ripper, who will be one of the 8 characters on the board. This player knows the identity of this character and his goal is to flee from the district as soon as possible (or avoid being accused for eight turns). The other player represents an independent investigator (not represented on the board) who tries to guess the identity of Jack. But he can make only one accusation during the game!
During each turn the players move the characters, using their special powers, placing them either in shadow or light. At the end of each turn, the witnesses declare if Jack is visible (in light, or adjacent to another character) or not (alone in the shadows). This allows the investigator to know which characters are innocent. This continues as the investigator tries to eliminate suspects while Jack tries to escape. Intuition, logic and cold blood will be necessary for each of the two participants.
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Mr Jack in New York
(7) after reading on comments from other websites, this game seems to have a lot of strategy...very interesting game
2014-03-26 - Kaden
Stand alone variant of Mr. Jack. As in Mr. Jack, one player takes the role of Mr. Jack, the other takes a role of a Detective. But there are new possibilities - gaslights and manholes are represented by pawns which can be moved.
The game takes place in Manhattan, and surrounding water is very important for escape of Mr. Jack.
Characters will have new powers and there will be also a police spy, who will be able to get valuable information.
This version of the game is more strategic and complex so it is suitable for more advanced players.
Mr Jack Pocket
It has been found again by Bruno Cathala and Ludovic Maublanc with Mr.Jack Pocket, the small card game derived from Mr. Jack. The board is replaced by a square grid made of nine street cards. The suspects, and among them Mr.Jack, are pictured on the cards. Holmes, Watson and a dog are turning around the grid, a system already used by Bruno Cathala in several games, and can “look” at the streets in a row or column. Every round, like in Mr.Jack, four actions are available. The first player selects one, his opponent two, and the first player then uses the last remaining action. Actions allow moving a detective one or two spaces clockwise around the grid, turning a card in order to change the view of the streets, swapping two street cards or drawing an alibi card. At the end of the round, Mr.Jack states if he can be seen by one of the detectives. Of course, the detectives must identify Jack, who must stay hidden long enough to escape.
Hive Carbon
(10) Still my favorite two-player game that is easy to carry around. Unfortunately, casual gamers have big trouble understanding how to play correctly.
SURROUND THE OPPONENTS QUEEN WITHOUT BREAKING THE HIVE
Hive is a highly addictive strategic game for two players that is not restricted by a board and can be played anywhere on any flat surface. Hive is made up of twenty two pieces, eleven black and eleven white, resembling a variety of creatures each with a unique way of moving.
With no setting up to do, the game begins when the first piece is placed down. As the subsequent pieces are placed this forms a pattern that becomes the playing surface (the pieces themselves become the board). Unlike other such games, the pieces are never eliminated and not all have to be played. The object of the game is to totally surround your opponents queen, while at the same time trying to block your opponent from doing likewise to your queen. The player to totally surround his opponents queen wins the game.
Hive Carbon comes with the mosquito and lady-bug expansion in the package.
Hive Portable or Original
Hive (original) do NOT comes with the mosquito and lady-bug expansion, but the Portable version comes with these 2 pieces in the package.
(10) Beautiful game and pieces extremely well-made.... LOVE IT
A GAME OF REFLECTION
Khet is a two-player chesslike game that combines lasers with classic strategy. Players alternate turns moving Egyptian-themed pieces having two, one or no mirrored surfaces. All four types of pieces (pharaoh, Anubis, pyramid and scarab) can either move one square forward, back, left, right, or diagonal, or stay in the same square and rotate by a quarter twist. Each turn ends by firing the real laser diode built into each players Sphinx piece. The laser beam bounces from mirror to mirror; if the beam strikes a non-mirrored surface on any piece, it is immediately removed from play. The ultimate goal is to illuminate your opponents pharaoh, while shielding yours from harm!
LIGHT WAR GAME WITH SOLIDER MINIATURES AND DIE ROLLING
Lionheart is a simple wargame that is like chess but with dice rolls that determine the success or failure of a capture move. There are seven different units: King, Knight, Archer, Heavy Infantry, Infantry, Mercenary, and Peasant. Each turn players can perform any 2 actions: move, turn, or attack. Foot units move one square forward per action. Mounted units move as many unblocked squares in front of them as they like. Units attack the square they are facing (archers attack an area of squares in front of them). Attacks are resolved by rolling the combat dice. Each appropriate symbol rolled (axes or arrows) counts as a hit. Scoring more hits than the target has hit points removes some of the units (miniatures) from the target army. The winner is the player who eliminates his opponents King or eliminates every other warrior in his opponents army leaving the King standing alone on the field of battle.
類別2: 戰爭類
TWO PLAYERS GAME OF QUICK AREA CONTROL
Originally published in 1997 as ArabanaIkibiti by the designers own publisher Bambus Spieleverlag then reprinted by Funagain in the US Kosmos Kahuna – part of its Kosmos twoplayer series – is the best known implementation of this design
Its a twoplayer game played on a board depicting twelve islands Players use cards to place bridges between these islands or remove opponents bridges If you get the majority of bridges around an island you place one of your marker stones on it and also remove any of your opponents bridges to that island – which might cause them to lose a bridge majority on an adjacent island and lose a marker stone there
The game is played in three rounds A round ends when all cards from the face down deck and the three face up cards have been taken Then points are scored for the islands with a marker stone on them The game can also end sooner when one player has absolutely NO bridges left on the board
The Kosmos edition has excellent graphics and nice wooden pieces and plays very well
類別2: 霸地類
Pentago
FIVE-IN-A-ROW WITH A TURNING MOVE
An abstract strategy game for 2 players with four 3×3 grids arranged into a larger 6×6 grid This game reimplements the well known connect 4 with a twist after placing a marble of his colour the player has to twist one of the grids by 90° so changing the board after every turn The first player to get 5 in a row wins
There are two slightly different editions available
The birch one allows the corner to be lifted and then turned while the redwhite plastic one has a pullout turn pushback mechanism
(8) Fun game, must play for 2 players
BATTLE BASED ON CARD POSITIONING ON BOARD
RRR (Regality vs. Religion: Revolution) is an advanced version of the basic game RR designed by Seiji Kanai
RR is a two-player full-information abstract game. Both players have the same set of pawns. The players take turns placing pawns on a 3x3 square playing field. Each pawn placed will either turn or destroy one or more of the pawns surrounding it. A game is finished when all nine squares are filled with pawns. At that time, the winner is the holder of most pawns which are facing in ones own direction.
RRR introduces new pawns to the game. At the start of the game, five neutral pawns are randomly selected from a stack of 11, which are available to both players, adding variation to each game.
LINK UP TO SCORE FOR VICTORY
Lost Cities is a card game in the Kosmos two-player series. The game consists of a single deck of cards of rank 2-10 in 5 different colors with 3 special handshakes in each suit. There is also a board which only functions to hold and organize discarded cards and is largely superfluous. Games last around 15 minutes and this is generally considered a good couples game and is often recommended for people with non-gamer partners.
The object the game is to gain points by mounting profitable archeaological expeditions to the different sites represented by the 5 colors. On a players turn they must always first play one card, either to an expedition or by discarding it to the appropriate discard pile, and then draw one card. There is a seperate discard pile for each color and a player may draw the top card of any discard pile or the top card of the deck. Cards played to expeditions must be in ascending order but they need not be consecutive. Handshakes (HS) are considered lower than a 2 and represent investments in an expedition. Thus, if you play a red 4, you may play any other red card higher than a 4 on a future turn but may no longer play a handshake, the 2, or the 3.
The game continues in this fashion with players alternating turns until the final card is taken from the draw pile. The rest of the cards in hand are then discarded and players score their expeditions. Each expedition that has at least one card played into it must be scored. Cards played into an expedition are worth their rank in points and handshakes count as a multiplier against your final total. Expeditions start at a value of -20 so you must play at least 20 points of cards into an expedition in order to make a profit. If you are left with a negative value and have a handshake the multiplier still applies. A 20 point bonus is awarded to every expedition with at least 8 cards played into it. The player with the most points wins the game, but it is typical to play 3 matches and add your score from each to see who wins.
類別2: 運氣類
Line of Action
CONNECT A LINE
Lines of Action is a simple game that uses checkers board and pieces. Its rules were published in Sid Sacksons A Gamut of Games. There are some commercial versions available though.
The object of LoA is to get all your pieces into a single connected group. A group of pieces is connected if they occupy an unbroken chain of adjacent spaces, horizontally, vertically, or diagonally.
Dvoon
A GAME OF TOWERS
DVONN is played on an elongated hexagonal board, with 23 white, 23 black and 3 red DVONN-pieces. In the beginning the board is empty. The players first place the DVONN-pieces on the board and next to their own pieces. Then they start stacking pieces on top of each other. A single piece may be moved 1 space in any direction, a stack of two pieces may be moved two spaces, etc. A stack must always be moved as a whole and a move must always end on top of another piece or stack. If pieces or stacks lose contact with the DVONN-pieces, they must be removed from the board. The game ends when no more moves can be made. The players put the stacks they control on top of each other and the one with the highest stack is the winner.
SCENARIO-BASED TWO PLAYERS FANTASY WAR GAME
Enter a world of high magic and bloody melees with Magestorm! Magestorm is a new fantasy board game series where you will finally be able to play fantasy battles as you dream them to be. Powerful magicians wielding god-like powers will call storms of fire from the sky, move hills, raze woods, invoke fear into the hearts of hundreds of enemies. At the same time, mighty armies will clash on the field of battle, and victory can only be achieved by the perfect combination of magic-using and military skill.
With top-level components and incredible replayability provided by the combination of different armies, mages, and scenarios, the first boxed set of Magestorm is just the beginning of an endless series of fantasy battles.
類別1: 任務類
Blue Lion
(6) Memory that is a little too simple, and is only fun if both players attempt to memorize
A GAME OF MEMORY AND STRATEGY
A valuable diamond – the Blue Lion – is on display at the Louvre and two thieves, Arsène Lupin Lupin and Lady X, both want to steal it.
The Blue Lion is played using six tiles. Each tile shows an icon on both the front and back: Lupin, Lady X, the Blue Lion diamond, or a police inspector. Each combination of two icons occurs once. One player plays as Lupin, the other as Lady X. During set-up, these tiles are arranged in a row. In turn, the players take one tile and add it to the front or the back of the line, without looking at the back of the tile. After this set-up, the players try to score points by creating special combinations of tiles. Each turn, a player can perform one of three actions to change the line:
Switch two adjacent tiles.
Move a tile that is on one end of the line to the other end of the line.
Flip a tile.
If this action results in a scoring combination of three tiles, the player scores points. The combinations are:
Sandwiching a tile showing the opponent by two tiles showing police inspectors: 1 point.
Sandwiching a tile showing the Blue Lion by two tiles showing the players character: 2 points.
Creating a row of three tiles showing the Blue Lion: 3 points.
After a combination has been formed, the middle tile of the combination is removed. The opposing player then adds it to one end of the line, although he cannot score points by doing so.
The first player to score seven points wins.
類別1: 記憶類
Jab Realtime Boxing
(8) Played a few games now, and it is really fun game to enjoy. Good brain exercises.
JAB is a skill-centric strategic boxing card game. In JAB, you get direct control over your boxers fists, providing an experience as close as possible to real boxing without getting punched in the face. JAB is played in real-time, meaning there are no turns.
To win the game, get a knockout by throwing staggering haymakers at your opponent until he eats canvas, or strategically win more rounds than your opponent by impressing the judges with your beautiful technique.
How is JAB different?
JAB attempts to innovate the real-time genre by challenging a player to be constantly making decisions, rather than simply recognizing patterns or performing calculations. The game also measures your ability to calmly manage your focus in a chaotic situation.
類別1: 實時類
(7) Need to play more to understand how this game really plays
MOVING ONLY PIECE FOR BOTH SIDES
Magnet won 2010 Runner Up Abstract Game of the Year in Games Magazine.
An abstract game where players try to get their king to the middle of the board. Each player has 12 blocks, 11 of which can be promoted 1, 2, or 3 times, thus increasing their movement capability (the king cannot be promoted so dont promote all your other pieces, or you will give away your kings location). A magnet, a black pawn, is placed on a gridded point and affects all of a players pieces on lines radiating out from that point, moving them closer to the magnet. You can capture other pieces in this way, removing them from the board.
WORLD BEST KNOWN ABSTRACT CHINESE STRATEGY GAME
XiangQi is one of the most played board games in the world. Translated loosely as elephant game, the name of XiangQi may have first been recorded in Songs of Chu during the 4th century BC of early China; in the state of Qi during the Warring State Period, the name XiangQi meant ivory Liubo pieces, not modern XiangQi played by Chinese. The modern Xiangqi set dates back to the Tang dynasty.
Based closely on ancient Chinese military strategy, XiangQi draws comparisons to European Chess, and indeed, both are descended from the ancient Indian game of Chaturanga.
鬥獸棋
ANIMAL BATTLE CHESS VARIANT
Also known as Animal Chess in English (this English name is used when English text appears on sets) is a traditional Chinese game in which each player has eight animals that move about the board one square at a time, attempting to win by entering the opponents den. Stronger animals can eat weaker ones, but the rat can defeat the elephant by crawling into its ear. Interest is added to the board by a river (navigable only by the rat, but the lion and tiger can leap across it) and pitfalls (which make all animals vulnerable to attack by weaker ones). Sets can be bought cheaply in many Chinese shops; some have rules in English. This is not a deep intellectual exercise, but a strategic game that can be enjoyed even by young children.
BEAUTIFUL MASTERPIECE GOOD FOR DISPLAY
In Cathedral, each player has a set of pieces of a different color. The pieces are in the shapes of buildings, covering from one to five square units. The first player takes the single neutral Cathedral piece and places it onto the board. Players then alternate placing one of their buildings onto the board until neither player can place another building. Players capture territory by surrounding areas that are occupied by at most one opponent or neutral building. A captured piece is removed and captured territory becomes off-limits to the opponent. The player with the fewest square units of buildings that cant be placed wins.
Pathagon
BUILD A PATH ACROSS
Pathagon is an exciting, ever changing new strategy game of building paths. While Pathagon is quick and easy to learn, there is a depth of strategy that will keep you on your toes. Players take turns placing their wooden game pieces on the board in an attempt to build a path from one side of the game board to the other. There is a trapping move that allows a player to trap and remove one of their opponents game pieces from the board. The first player to complete the path wins. Sounds simple, doesnt it? The catch is that the two paths cross. Every move has an offensive and defensive consideration. Pathagon is simple enough to be played by children, strategic enough to engage a true gamer. The rules have been drafted so that there is always a winner, no ties, stalemates, or cats games. Hand crafted from high quality hardwoods, Pathagon is pretty enough to be left out on the coffee table or bookshelf to be played again and again.
The Duke
TWO PLAYERS ABSTRACT CHESS WITH RANDOM PIECES
The Duke is a dynamic, tile-based strategy game with an old-world, feudal theme, high-quality wooden playing pieces, and an innovative game mechanism in its double-sided tiles. Each side represents a different posture – often considered to be defensive or offensive – and demonstrates exactly what the piece can do within the turn. At the end of a move (or after the use of a special ability), the tile is flipped to its other side, displaying a new offensive or defensive posture.
Each posture conveys different options for maneuver and attack. The full circle is a standard Move, the hollow circle the Jump, the arrow provides for the Slide, the star a special Strike ability and so on. Each turn a player may select any tile to maneuver, attempting to defend his own troops while positioning himself to capture his opponents tiles. If you end your movement in a square occupied by an opponents tile, you capture that tile. Capture your opponents Duke to win!
Players start the game by placing their Duke in one of the two middle squares on their side of the game board. Two Footman are then placed next to the Duke. Each turn a player may choose to either move a single tile or randomly draw a new tile from the bag. With twelve different Troop Tiles, all double-sided, and sixteen total pieces for each player, the variety of game play is limitless.
BALLS BALLS BALLS FORM THE PYRAMID
In Pylos, you want to be one who places the final ball on top of the pyramid. Sounds simple enough, right?
At the start of the game, each player has fifteen balls, either light or dark, and they take turns placing them on a game board that has sixteen indentations on it in a 4x4 grid. Once four balls have been placed next to one another in a square, a ball can be placed on top of them, forming a second level of play. Players can then place balls on this second level, eventually allowing a ball to be placed on the third level – and once that level is full, which requires only four balls, a final ball can be placed on the fourth level, with that player winning the game.
If a player forms a square of his own color – that is, four balls placed next to one another on the same level – that player can remove one or two of his balls (that dont support anything) from anywhere on the board and place them in his reserve, thereby giving him more balls to place in the future. Whenever a player forms a square thats not entirely his own color, he can stack one of his pieces – that is, he can take any ball and place it on this square, locking some pieces in place and making a move without having to place a piece from his reserve.
Gobblet
Gobblet is an abstract game played on a 4x4 grid with each of the two players having twelve pieces that can nest on top of one another to create three stacks of four pieces.
Your goal in Gobblet is to place four of your pieces in a horizontal, vertical or diagonal row. Your pieces start nested off the board. On a turn, you either play one exposed piece from your three off-the-board piles or move one piece on the board to any other spot on the board where it fits. A larger piece can cover any smaller piece. A piece being played from off the board may not cover an opponents piece unless its in a row where your opponent has three of his color.
Your memory is tested as you try to remember which color one of your larger pieces is covering before you move it. As soon as a player has four like-colored pieces in a row, he wins — except in one case: If you lift your piece and reveal an opponents piece that finishes a four-in-a-row, you dont immediately lose; you cant return the piece to its starting location, but if you can place it over one of the opponents three other pieces in that row, the game continues.
Quixo
Quixo bears a superficial resemblance to Tic-Tac-Toe – with one player being crosses and the other circles, and with both trying to create a line of their symbol – but thats where the resemblance ends. The pieces in the game are cubes that have a circle on one side, a cross on another, and blank faces on the other four; to set up the game, players place the 25 cubes with blanks face-up on the 5x5 grid in the game board.
On a turn, the active player takes a cube that is blank or bearing his symbol from the outer ring of the grid, rotates it so that it shows his symbol (if needed), then adds it to the grid by pushing it into one of the rows from which it was removed. Thus, a few pieces of the grid change places each turn, and the cubes slowly go from blank to crosses and circles. Play continues until someone forms an orthogonal or diagonal line of five cubes bearing his symbol, with this person winning the game.
TWO PLAYERS DUEL WAR GAME
Memoir 44 is a historical boardgame where players face-off in stylized battles of some of the most famous historic battles of World War II including Omaha Beach, Pegasus Bridge, Operation Cobra and the Ardennes.
7 Wonders: Duel
TWO PLAYERS DUEL
A player can win 7 Wonders: Duel in one of three ways. Each time that you acquire a military card, you advance the military marker toward your opponents capital, giving you a bonus at certain positions. If you reach the opponents capital, you win the game immediately. Similarly, if you acquire any six of seven different scientific symbols, you achieve scientific dominance and win immediately. If neither of these situations occurs, then the player with the most points at the end of the game wins.
圍棋
THE OLDEST STRATEGY GAME
By all appearances, its just two players taking turns laying stones on a 19×19 (or smaller) grid of intersections. But once its basic rules are understood, Go shows its staggering depth. One can see why many people say its one of the most elegant brain-burning abstract games in history, with players trying to claim territory by walling off sections of the board and surrounding each others stones. The game doesnt end until the board fills up, or, more often, when both players agree to end it, at which time whoever controls the most territory wins.
Haleakala
In the two-player-game Haus der Sonne, players are building statues on the slopes of a volcano to honor their gods. The higher the statues are built up the volcano the more they score in one of the two scoring phases, but of course the closer they are build towards the crater the danger of being destroyed by volcanic eruption is higher as well.
By playing numbered chips (1-5) to the beach, you move a ship clockwise. The sector in which the ship is moved will be evaluated. If a player has placed a numbered chip into this sector, he may gain a card from this sector. Cards are required to build statues, buy bonus score cards or to influence the direction of the lava when the volcano finally errupts (two times in the game - right before an evaluation).
類別2: 資源分配類
Abagio
One player has twelve red frogs; the other player has twelve purple frogs. There is a yellow frog that can be moved by either player. The gameboard is a six-by-six grid. The perimeter squares are called the Outer Path. The Outer Path surrounds the squares called the Inner Path. The center four squares have been merged into the Pond, which is the goal area. Players roll both dice on their turn with the goal of getting one’s own frogs into the pond to win. The frogs may be stacked but an opponent whose frog rests on top of the stack can freeze a stack of two. An opponent can not freeze a stack of three. The stacking limit is five (except for the root and pond, which have none). The object of the game is to maneuver all twelve of your frogs into the pond before ones opponent.
Final Act is an abstract, simultaneous move game of tank versus tank action, using an innovative control panel system that lets players program their moves--for up to seven tanks each-- quickly. Both the direction the tank moves and where it points are covered with quick dials and then revealed to the opponent after both sides have finished.
Designed by Sharon Katz, who actually commanded a tank in the Israeli Army, Final Act is not linked with any specific historical period.
Players plan their moves place their shots, and then maneuver their tanks according to the plan. If tank and shell end up in the same space, one hit takes place. Two hits knock out any tank.
Before the game begins, each player may locate certain kinds of terrain pieces-- swamp, minefield, berms -- that can help their defense or impact how they want to attack.
To win the game, a player needs to move one tank to the last line of defense row of the opponent.
新貨出售: 有現貨
Haru Ichiban
In Haru Ichiban, or The Wind of Spring, two apprentice gardeners compete to use this wind to their advantage to create harmonious patterns of their blossoms upon the lilypads.
Each gardener has eight flower buds numbered 1-8, with three of those buds being in hand at the start of a round. Sixteen lilypads are placed in the 5x5 pond, with one of them turned to its dark side.
類別2: 切圖類
Mamma Raptor has escaped from her run and laid her eggs in the park. A team of scientists must neutralize her and capture the baby raptors before they run wild into the forest.
Raptor is a card driven boardgame with tactical play and some double guessing. Players use their cards to move their pawns (scientists on one side, Mother and baby raptors on the other) on the board. Every round, the player who played the lowest ranked card can use the corresponding action, while his opponent has movement attack points equal to the difference between the two cards values. The scientists can use fire, can move by jeep on the tracks, and can even call for reinforcements, while the mamma raptor can hide in the bushes, yell to frighten the scientists, and call for her babies.
類別2: 點到點類
新貨出售: 沒有
Kamisado
Kamisado is a game of pure skill and strategy with no dice, cards or other chance element — its just you against your opponent!
The aim in each round is to be the first to get an octagonal dragon tower to the opposite side of the board; towers move in straight lines, either forwards or diagonally forwards. The twist is that you must move the tower of the color matching the space on which the opponent moved on her previous turn. As the game progresses, youll find that the routes you want to use are blocked by enemy towers — and sometimes your own! If you cant move, your opponent moves again immediately, moving the tower matching the color of the space occupied by the stymied tower.
As the game unfolds, your towers will be promoted to Sumos and have the ability to push your opponents pieces backwards, earning you extra turns. The situations continue to become more complex and challenging, until one player accumulates the required winning total and can be declared a Kamisado Grand Master — until the next game!
stratego fortress
Stratego Fortress is a 3D variant of Stratego.
Each of the two players control a fortress with 3 levels and also some noble knights to invade the opposite fortress. Goal is to capture the adversarial flag.
There are secret passages to discover, pitfalls to avoid, deal with powerful wizards and sneaky dwarfs. Beware also of the the princess or you will succumb to her charm. Only the bravest will win.
Daxu
In Daxu, players collect sets of cards of six different types of shops: bakery, rice wine shop, wood cutter, basket maker, silk dealer, and tea house.
Each round, several cards are flipped and players decide whether they want the cards for themselves or they want to give the cards to their opponent. Obtained cards go into your personal collection, and some of these cards provide (or make you lose) reputation points. If you focus too much on one type of shop, your customers will be dissatisfied and your opponent will gain points instead of you!
At the end of the game, players score points based on who holds majorities in which shops. Holding a majority by only a few cards earns points for you, but from a certain point on, that majority provides points for your opponent instead! Whoever collects the most points from majorities and reputation points wins.
Onitama is a two-player, perfect information abstract game with a random starting set-up. On a 5x5 board, both players start with five pawns on their side, with the main pawn in the middle.
Each player has two open cards that each display a possible move for any of his pieces. There is a fifth card that cannot be used by either player. On a players turn, he chooses one of his cards, moves one of his pieces according to the chosen card, then replaces the card he used with the fifth card. The other player then chooses one of his cards, moves accordingly, and exchanges that card with this fifth card — which is, of course, the card the first player just used.
Moving onto one of the opponents pawns removes that pawn from the game. Taking the opponents main pawn, or moving your main pawn into your opponents main pawns starting space, wins you the game.
Seven honorable and brave samurai, aided by a handful of frightened villagers, are the only defenders of the village. Will you help these villagers to fend off bandits, or will you command the thieves to steal all the rice you can and punish the insolent peasants?
Seven Swords is a game for two players in which one player controls seven samurai and the villagers to try to repel the attack of the evil villains while the other player controls the bandits who try to steal all the rice they can and destroy the village. The game lasts 18 turns, after which the player with the most victory points (VPs) wins. The samurai player begins the game with the VPs in the villagers houses and rice stores, and the bandit player must attack peasant houses and steal rice to acquire these VPs. The bandit player can also earn extra points if he eliminates the samurai in combat.
類別1: 對打類
類別2: 運送類
JurassAttack!
In JurassAttack!, two players face off in an epic face-to-face dinosaur battle!
In the game, each player chooses a dinosaur or pack of dinosaurs of the same type from their hand, then they reveal them simultaneously to compare Ferocity values. The player with the highest total Ferocity wins the round, taking their rivals dinosaurs into their score pile. Different types of dinosaurs are worth varying amounts of victory points, so its important to plan well and make sure not to give away too many points in the event of a knockout!
These fierce, prehistoric beasts each have their own special effects as well. Some hunt alone while others may pack with dinos of different types. And sometimes, with a well-placed bluff, players may even be able to sneak some of their precious eggs into their own score pile to protect the future generation.
Tak is a two-player abstract strategy game dreamed up by Pat Rothfuss in The Wise Mans Fear and made reality by James Ernest. In Tak, players attempt to make a road of their pieces connecting two opposite sides of the board.
Okko: Era of the Asagiri
Okko is a miniature game that is played on a board with squares. It simulates skirmishes between Samurai and other typical Japanese-inspired characters (Ninjas, Geishas !!!) in the empire of Pajan. Each player controls from 4 to 6 characters
Okko is released as basis boxes containing the rules, adventure book, 6 double sided modular game boards, 10 special dice and 20 cardboard miniatures.
There are pewter miniatures (unpainted) to replace the cardboard minis included in this game.
Hounded
In Hounded, players will either be the cunning fox, trying to elude capture, or the determined hunter, trying to hunt down the fox.
In the game. each player moves their pawns and turns over tiles as they do, sometimes triggering effects and sometimes not. While the fox character is alone, the hunter has a team of hounds to help him hunt the fox. All the hunter has to do to win is either corner the fox with his dogs or force the fox to end his turn next to the hunter himself. For the fox to win, it has to run out the clock, which is done by either finding the three timepiece tiles or flipping over 43 of the 49 tiles. Once time runs out, the hunter has to retire for the day and the fox escapes!
Ninja Taisen
Ninja Taisen is a two-player, dice-driven open information abstract game with a random set-up. Both players have identical sets of ten fighters, with three fighters in each of three colors with values 1–3 along with a tri-colored boss valued at 4; these fighters are placed in small stacks of varying size onto a line thats eleven steps long. On a players turn, he rolls the three colored dice and can make up to three moves accordingly, with the blue die moving a blue fighter, etc. Moving a fighter that has other fighters on top of him moves these other fighters as well.
Fog of Love is a card game for two players who act out a stormy love affair. You play from the very first sparks of attraction through in-law encounters, awkward situations, arguments, parties, thoughtful gifts, secret affairs, kids, and reconciliations to a hopefully happy ending.
Each player has a character made up from different personality traits that influence what they desire and want to avoid. You can become a one-legged, disorganized, cocky female pilot who gets a kick out of adventures; a kind, nerdy male tv celebrity who is ambitious and sensual; or a cute, flirtatious, impulsive and cynical female florist with a big nose-piercing. The possibilities are almost endless. Will the characters end up in a satisfying relationship and get married — or will it all end in a dramatic break-up?
You learn what it takes to make the relationship work, build insights into each other, and hopefully find out whether your partner is sincere or just bluffing.
Each player alternately introduces crucial scenes with important choices to be made. As in real life, you have to decide between what is best for you and what is best for the relationship – and you need to consider what your partner decides as both of your decisions will have impact on the shared outcome.
Balance, intuition, and calculated choices are key to success in this romantic game, where both can end as winners, losers, or something in between...
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Android: Netrunner is an asymmetrical Living Card Game for two players. Set in the cyberpunk future of Android and Infiltration, the game pits a megacorporation and its massive resources against the subversive talents of lone runners.
In Patchwork, two players compete to build the most aesthetic (and high-scoring) patchwork quilt on a personal 9x9 game board. To start play, lay out all of the patches at random in a circle and place a marker directly clockwise of the 2-1 patch.
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Fishpond Australia
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Buy books at Fishpond Australia. Find new releases, bestsellers, fiction, children's books and more. It's shopping made easy.
BSP Gallery Bookshop
http://www.bspgallery.com.au
Books and memorabilia on many subjects, including literature, performing arts, first editions, Pacificana, sport, cricket, music, antiques, military, shipping, aviation history, art, craft, Australian and old postcards.
Big Sky Publishing
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Big Sky Publishing is an Australian owned, independent publisher specialising in producing the highest quality non-fiction books and corporate products. We are passionate about what we do and work closely with our authors and clients to produce...
WA Library Supplies
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WA library, school and office supplies provides shelving, furniture, trolleys, book protection and repair, whiteboards, display boards and accessories, audio visual equipment to Western Australian libraries, schools and offices.
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Australian online bookstore, selling new and used books online. Specializing in military history and Australiana titles. We offer a rare and out-of-print book search!
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Buy Comics is Australia's ultimate resource for vintage, rare and new comic books. Whether you're looking for Superman or Sandman, we have it all with new stock being added daily.
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Press release Overseas & China | Government & Society | Marketing & Sponsorship
SPORTACCORD CONFIRMS ‘EXCEPTIONAL’ SILVER PARTNERS FOR GOLD COAST EDITION
By SportAccord 25 Apr 2019
LAUSANNE, Switzerland – SportAccord is delighted to confirm its Silver Partners Edmonton Events, EventScotland and Beijing Olympic City Development Association (BODA) for the 17th edition of the World Sport & Business Summit set to take place from 5 – 10 May 2019 in Gold Coast, Australia, home to last year’s Commonwealth Games.
SportAccord brings together international sports federations, cities and regions, and top decision-makers from the global sports community. Over 50% of those attending use the World Sport & Business Summit platform to share breaking news, or drive sporting initiatives and key strategies.
With less than a month away before SportAccord begins, organisations who still want to be involved can take advantage of an exclusive offer (CHF 3,750) and experience the benefits of attending a high profile event. By applying code EO2019 (available for a limited time only) during registration, secures this investment. This includes a delegate pass, 5-nights accommodation and breakfast, not to mention the opportunity to meet and discuss future sporting opportunities and events with the Silver Partners.
EventScotland has a strong track record and international reputation for hosting major cultural, business and sporting events and has been a keen supporter and partner of SportAccord over the years. Through the work of EventScotland and partners, Scotland will host a number of world-class events in the coming years, including the 2019 Solheim Cup, Euro 2020 - also the 60th anniversary of the European Championship competition – with Glasgow as one of the 12 host cities, and the recently secured inaugural 2023 UCI Cycling World Championships. As in previous years, EventScotland are also sponsoring the official notepad used at SportAccord. Meet the EventScotland team at Stand 50.
Edmonton Events have also renewed their partnership with SportAccord and will sponsor the ‘Edmonton Events Zen Zone’ featuring a Reef within the Exhibition Hall, enabling delegates to take a few moments to relax from their busy schedules. Edmonton has a reputation for hosting a wide range of major events from the ITU World Triathlon Final and IIHF Ice Hockey World Junior Championships, to extreme events like the FISE World Series and Red Bull Crashed Ice. A spirited city that loves sports and radiates culture, its sporting pulse is palpable to visitors and fans alike. Meet Edmonton Events at Stand 64.
Beijing Olympic City Development Association (BODA) was set up in August 2009 to carry forward the Olympic spirit. Its organisation encourages the development of public welfare relating to the Olympic culture, education, sports, youth and citizen involvement, and conducts sport-related exchanges as part of the Olympic movement. Beijing will be host to SportAccord 2020, and BODA will become the Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the 18th edition. BODA are sponsoring The Recharge Zone which features The Outback – this year’s destination theme for Tourism and Events Queensland. Meet BODA at Stand 54.
Commenting on the silver partnerships, Nis Hatt, Managing Director, SportAccord said:
“We are delighted to welcome the return of Edmonton Events and EventScotland as Silver Partners for the 17th edition of the SportAccord World Sport & Business Summit and heartily appreciate their continued involvement, support and loyalty to the event.
“We are also honoured to welcome BODA onboard this year as a Silver Partner and look forward to working with them on the 18th edition of SportAccord, scheduled to take place in Beijing from 19 – 24 April 2020.
“Our Silver Partners are exceptional and we wish them the very best for SportAccord in Gold Coast.”
SportAccord enables attendees to enjoy multiple networking events and access to 50+ conference sessions. The high-profile event gives organisations the opportunity to increase their visibility by becoming a Partner. Organisations can learn more about the unique benefits of becoming a partner via Daily Highlights and contact sales@sportaccord.sport to become involved.
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The Diamond Ship
A tale of pirates and plunder from The Man from Story Mountain.
Here�s a true story that waited three hundred years to be told. It�s the most exciting moment in pirate history, and yet this little book is the first to tell it! What do pirates love more than anything? That�s right - treasure!
It was in the year 1721 that a pirate captain named John Taylor took the largest single prize ever on the high seas. He and his crew of mutineers took a bounty that would take 48,000 years to earn on a sailor�s wages. The diamonds were bound for the King of Portugal. He had used slaves in India to mine them. Now they belonged to Captain Taylor. Did he share them fairly with his men? Would you? Find out what really happened and learn some surprising pirate facts in this swashbuckling read.
Adrian Beckingham (A.K.A. The Man from Story Mountain) is a storyteller who has appeared everywhere from the Glastonbury Festival to The British Museum, from the Sahara Desert to the Himalayan Mountains. He is no stranger to sea faring adventures, undertaking his first international ocean voyage from England to Australia at the age of three. He qualified for his full power boat license on his 16th birthday and he co-ordinated Greenpeace anti-whaling campaigns to turn back Japanese whalers in the 1990s.
Mogzilla have worked with Adrian to bring the spoken word power of his tales into a new series of short novels that are ideal for improving readers
For young fans of swashbuckling pirate tales, here's a true story that has waited 300 years to be told. Pirates are, of course, always in search of treasure and the diamonds destined for the King of Portugal are now in the hands of Captain Taylor. They are the largest single prize in history so there should be plenty to go round - so did he share them fairly with his men? What do you think? Excellent storytelling brings the tale alive - fantastic to read aloud. Parents in Touch
Also by Adrian Beckingham
In The King of the Things (Adrian's first book for Mogzilla) Hunch gets into trouble in the wild woods when he bumps into The Things - creatures so weird that no one has ever been able to describe them.
In GobDrop and SnowShine (Adrian's second book for Mogzilla) Elf SnowShine is captured by GobDrop - the world's most disgusting goblin.
Email storymountain@hotmail.com to arrange for Adrian to visit your school, library or festival.
Keep in touch with Mogzilla Books on Facebook
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